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January 31, 2008
I for one welcome our new idiot overlords
I think it's great that the Ontario government is fighting smoking by promoting innumeracy.
Posted by Chris Selley at January 31, 2008 11:51 PM
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Chris, if the population was actually numerate to any degree, it would amount to an earthquake-sized social revolution; almost nothing would be the same. The American mathematician and columnist John Allen Paulos has made a career of backing up this claim. Here's his column: abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/
Posted by: Dimitri at February 1, 2008 09:30 AM
Chris, if the population was actually numerate to any degree, it would amount to an earthquake-sized social revolution; almost nothing would be the same. The American mathematician and columnist John Allen Paulos has made a career of backing up this claim. Here's his column: abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/
Posted by: Dimitri at February 1, 2008 09:31 AM