Innumeracy
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Innumeracy is a term coined by Douglas R. Hofstadter to label a growing trend in the inability of people to understand numbers, statistics, and probabilities. Numbers and probabilities are often essential to understanding the world, and ignorance, or even an anti-intellectual stance against understanding how they work, can lead to significant consequences personally and for society as a whole.
The easiest example of innumeracy in action is the success of the massive multi-state lotteries, with the quip that "lotteries are a tax on the innumerate."
