Date: 2019-06-29 — ‹ Work-related deaths | The Energy Supplier ›
Unfortunately, the press, like politics and entertainment are always more or less faithful projection of the population they serve, or exploit, or with with whom they live in symbiosis. Over the centuries, the wisdom of peoples has captured this cultural infusion, this ideal and material transfer into numerous proverbs:
Unfortunately, the common cultural foundations of Europe are overlaid by the prevalence of romantic, humanistic culture over rational technical and scientific culture, so much so that one is not ashamed to boast in public that they understand nothing, for example, of mathematics, a field of knowledge that is one of the cornerstones not only of modern science, but also of world economics.
What is more serious is that if an idiot boasts of being ignorant, one would expect such boasting to be publicly condemned by public opinion, but this does not happen.
Are we to conclude that large portions of the masses are like the rats of Hamelin?
ft.com
Brexit campaigner offers to have disputed EU contribution figure audited
patoss-dyslexia.org
Saying you’re rubbish with numbers is seen as a badge of honour in the UK. This means those with dyscalculia very rarely get the help they need
adviseonly.com
Alla fine della calda estate del 2015 vi propongo una conversazione a tutto campo con Piergiorgio Odifreddi, matematico, logico e saggista italiano. Noto al grande pubblico per il suo anticlericalismo, l’ho intervistato per AdviseOnly sul rapporto fra gli italiani e la matematica e fra quest’ultima e l’economia, oltre che sui motivi dell’avversione ai calcoli delle donne. Uno dei quali tocca un nervo scoperto dei rapporti tra i sessi: chi è il più intelligente?
news4teachers.de
Sie ist der Alptraum vieler Schüler – und doch eine wichtige Grundlage des Alltags: Mit Mathematik tun sich viele Menschen schwer, mit Statistiken sind sie oft leicht zu manipulieren. Viele vertrauen blind hochkomplexen Algorithmen. Über ein deutsches Phänomen.