innumeracy

Because this light hearted story talked about over and over again reinforces mathematical illiteracy (aka innumeracy).

Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog 2010

In yet another example of "innumeracy" when it comes to retirement adequacy, the Bipartisan Policy Center has proposed tackling the deficit by halving the amount that employers and employees can contribute to 401k accounts because they insist that affluent people will retire rich and we should stop giving them tax breaks.

Jane White: How So-Called Deficit Experts Would Destroy Our Already Broken Pension System Jane White 2010

I discuss this kind of innumeracy at length in my new book, "On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits."

Wray Herbert: The Link Between Education and Living Longer 2010

I discuss this kind of innumeracy at length in my new book, "On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits."

Wray Herbert: The Link Between Education and Living Longer 2010

Also, handwritten censuses are often at the mercy of the spelling ability of the census-taker involved--and that's when other issues, such as innumeracy, aren't also raising their unlovely heads.

Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010

In yet another example of "innumeracy" when it comes to retirement adequacy, the Bipartisan Policy Center has proposed tackling the deficit by halving the amount that employers and employees can contribute to 401k accounts because they insist that affluent people will retire rich and we should stop giving them tax breaks.

Jane White: How So-Called Deficit Experts Would Destroy Our Already Broken Pension System Jane White 2010

Twenty years ago, the all-around scientific genius Douglas Hofstadter coined the term "innumeracy" to describe an ignorance of mathematics.

Michael Sigman: Innumeracy: Today's Illiteracy 2009

I believe the term that would sum up that whole comment is "innumeracy".

Balloon Juice 2009

It’s the same kind of innumeracy that has people thinking we should cut foreign aid because they think we spend 20% of the federal budget on it.

Matthew Yglesias » Fun With Tax Deductions 2010

Their seeming innumeracy is a smokescreen to disguise their real goal -- a nation in which the economic and political elite maintain their power and privilege globally on the basis of military dominance domestically supported by a "winner take all" economy where it is every man for himself.

Carl Pope: Something Wicked This Way Comes Carl Pope 2011