innumeracy
- a word derived from innumerate.
Example Sentences
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As Gelman observes, the problem with this approach as policy “is not just the innumeracy, it’s the blithe disregard for it, the idea that being off by multiple orders of magnitude ... just doesn’t matter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
The authors made the innumeracy mistake of not taking into account population size at the time of the events.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
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 problem here is really one of innumeracy.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2016
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
