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John A. Paulos — Avoiding Innumeracy (EP. 219)

Jun 6, 2024
John A. Paulos, Professor, Mathematician, and Writer, discusses math education, puzzles, cognitive biases, innumeracy, randomness ignorance, anchoring bias, Monty Hall problem, ideal math courses, nudging, and more. Topics include practical math teaching methods, misconceptions in statistics, strategies for confidence intervals, critical thinking through math, nudging in behavioral economics, and math in financial disasters.
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