Re: [Phys-l] innumeracy

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Highland" <shighlan@uslink.net>
To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] innumeracy


> I agree that knowing the correct population of your country or the world is
> something a bit different from what I'd call 'numeracy."  After just a 
> quick
> glance at the values below it looks to me that more are in the ballpark 
> than
> wildly off.
Not sure what standards you would consider being wildly off, but 19/35 were 
under 100 million for the U.S.  (10/35 below 10 million) and 9/35 over a 
billion.  I consider all those to be wildly off!  ;-)

Rick