Steve comments:
Of course John. Innumeracy is a big problem. For example, the worst
social statistic of all time was
"Since 1950 the number of American Children killed by handguns has doubled
every year."
Next comment posted Steve was:
Oops, my mistake.
The 550 billion number was for 1989.
Then next comment posted is in response to John:
> How many wildlife were killed by handguns during this period of time?[JF]
Steve: Beats me and I don't see the relevance. The topic had drifted to
"lying
with numbers".
Finally Steve comments that he is off topic with his allusion to hand guns
and statistics:
"Anyhow this is getting very far afield of enviro-ethics. The point of the
original post that spawned this was to show that inumeracy was a problem,
not the fields of statistics and applied math. One has to use critical
thinking when it comes to things like statistics, a failure to do so will
result in accepting alot of junk."
John here:
What do you mean by critical thinking and how can it improve environmental
quality?
chao
john foster
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