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“One rarely discussed consequence of innumeracy is its link with pseudoscience,” Poulos wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Other targets include bringing local public transport closer to London’s standard, extending 5G and fibre broadband across the country and working to eliminate illiteracy and innumeracy in primary school leavers, it said.

From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2022

The most important place where innumeracy has helped foster vaccine skepticism is in the debate over vaccine effectiveness against severe illness and death.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021

"Eradicating illiteracy and innumeracy is central to our plan for education," she said.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2014

If mathematics education communicated this playful aspect of the subject, formally at the elementary, secondary, or college level or informally via popular books, I don’t think innumeracy would be as widespread as it is.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos