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	Innumeracy - John Allen Paulos
		Paulos is right in his outrage: innumeracy -- like illiteracy -- is unacceptable, and the cost to society (in bad decisions made on the basis of bad and misunderstood maths) far too great.
		Paulos did get himself a gig at ABCNews.com clearing things up, and there are a few watchdogs and debunkers out there (generally ranting and raving very much at the periphery), but a more realistic solution lies in decreasing mass-innumeracy itself.
		Paulos does consider both the causes and the possible ways to decrease the prevalence of innumeracy, but his discussion and suggestions are necessarily barely elaborated on (he has a lot to get to in this short book).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/maths/paulosja.htm (1102 words)

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		John Allen Paulos, author of the best-selling Innumeracy, exposes their tricks in A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.
		Paulos argues that the world is so complex that it cannot be accurately described, much less manipulated.
		Paulos is scathing in describing person-in-the-street reactions to this, that and the other thing, which he describes as "the widespread tendency to present blather and call it news." Paulos' main complaint is that people are not rational.
	www.edu-observatory.org /eo/bkr/bkr.95.06 (1480 words)

	John Paulos - Resume
		Bestselling author, mathematician, public speaker, and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com and the Guardian, John Allen Paulos grew up in Chicago and Milwaukee and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin.
		(Paulos has declined to subject the poll to his usual withering scrutiny.) Once Upon a Number, published in 1998, was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best nonfiction books of the year, and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market also received glowing notices and made the Business Week bestsellers list.
		Paulos was also an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University, a Fellow of CSICOP/Skeptical Inquirer, a member of the editorial board of the Philadelphia Daily News.
	www.math.temple.edu /~paulos/resume.html (359 words)

	Jeane Dixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is best known for allegedly predicting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
		Dixon was so well-known that John Allen Paulos, a mathematician at Temple University, coined what he called the "Jeane Dixon effect", in which people loudly tout a few correct predictions and overlook false predictions.
		Many of Dixon's forecasts proved false, such as her prediction that World War III would begin in 1958 over the offshore Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu, that labor leader Walter Reuther would run for president in 1964 and that the Soviets would land the first man on the moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeane_Dixon (303 words)

	A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper - Press Comment
		John Allen Paulos was born in Denver, raised in Chicago and Milwaukee, and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin.
		Paulos is the author of a number of scholarly papers on mathematical logic, probability, and the philosophy of science.
		Paulos, who wrote the bestseller Innumeracy (the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy), has now written a fun, spunky, wise little book that would be helpful to both the consumers of the news and its purveyors.
	hibp.ecse.rpi.edu /~connor/paulos.html (752 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Higher \| X = not a whole lot
		John Allen Paulos finds it difficult to draw statistical conclusions from Bush 's victory in the US election
		Bush received approximately 130,000 more votes than John Kerry in Ohio, so if 65,000 Bush voters in the state had switched, we'd now be talking about president-elect Kerry.
		· John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University, Philadelphia, and bestselling author of Innumeracy and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/sciences/story/0,12243,1353369,00.html (722 words)

	Temple University \| Office of News and Media Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John Allen Paulos, Ph.D. In the autobiographical introduction to his book, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Paulos recounts his memories of his grandfather reading the Chicago Tribune at the kitchen table, his devotion to the hometown Milwaukee Journal, and summers reading the Rocky Mountain News while visiting his grandparents in Denver.
		So it is not surprising that Paulos, who has been named one of three recipients of Temple University's Research and Creative Achievement Awards for 2002, has become a nationally recognized and award-winning commentator on how mathematics and numbers are portrayed by the news media.
		Paulos, who earned his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, is also a member of the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board and a monthly contributor to ABCNews.com, where he regularly opines on mathematically flavored issues in the news.
	www.temple.edu /news_media/pm903.html (858 words)

	Once Upon a Number
		John Allen Paulos is a worldly mathematician, subspecies logician, who has noted with dismay the extreme level of naivete concerning quantitative issues in public discourse and thought.
		This book is Paulos' "response to the relative merits of narratives and numbers," that is, between the specific and personal and of the general and detached, "the two fundamental ways of relating to our world." Both terms are broadly meant.
		Paulos is not one to spend the time to deeply analyze a point.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/math/alexander/reviews/paulos.html (988 words)

	AAAS - AAAS News Release
		For his tireless efforts to communicate the joy of mathematics to the public, Temple University Professor John Allen Paulos has been named to receive the highly coveted 2003 AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
		Paulos has made mathematics understandable to audiences in the United States and abroad.
		During the 2000 presidential elections, for example, Paulos contributed pieces that led to a number of media appearances and much commentary, most notably a citation by the Florida Supreme Court.
	www.aaas.org /news/releases/2003/1223mathematician.shtml (305 words)

	James K. Glassman on EMH and John Allen Paulos on NRO Financial
		Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University, a columnist for ABCNews.com, and a great storyteller.
		He begins his new book by citing the insight of economist John Maynard Keynes that stock picking is akin to a beauty contest, where the object is not to choose the prettiest woman but to choose the woman who others think is the prettiest.
		Paulos cites the old joke about the two efficient-market theorists walking down the street: "They spot a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk and pass it by, reasoning that if it were real, it would have been picked up already."
	www.nationalreview.com /nrof_glassman/glassman062003.asp (2149 words)

	Salon Books \| Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories
		Paulos tackles the conflict with enthusiasm and good-natured humor.
		By the end of the book, Paulos' purpose is clear enough, but the reading would have been smoother had he given the reader a better light by which to navigate.
		That Paulos pulls it off without veering too far into the technical -- or careening into the patronizing -- is a testament to the success of his book.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/11/11sneaks.html (771 words)

	Review of John Allen Paulos' "Innumeracy" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For example, like some skeptics, Paulos argues that not only are reports of visitors from outer space almost certainly not true, but he feels the need to go on to argue that it is almost certain that there are no advanced civilizations capable of or interested in visiting our planet.
		I happen to agree with Paulos on this, but his argument is filled with unsubstantiated claims (there isn't a single footnote or reference in the entire book).
		Similarly, Paulos ridicules psychics such as Jean Dixon and the people who believe such predictions, but concludes his book with a false prophesy himself.
	www.skepticism.net /articles/2000/000017.html (901 words)

	Temple mathematician John Allen Paulos honored by AAAS for promoting understanding of science
		As an author and columnist, Paulos' public discussions of such diverse--and often controversial--subjects have made him a nationally recognized and award-winning commentator on how mathematics and numbers are portrayed by the news media and their prevalence in everyday life.
		Paulos, who earned his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, also served as a member of the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board and contributes a monthly column, "Who's Counting" to ABCNews.com, where he regularly opines on mathematically flavored issues in the news.
		NOTE: A photo of John Allen Paulos is available online at http://mdev.temple.edu/photoarchive/ or through the Office of News and Media Relations.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-02/tu-tmj020604.php (799 words)

	’A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market’: He Should Have Known Better
		Before his mishap with WorldCom, Paulos writes, he put his knowledge of mathematics and probability to good use: ''I believed that stock movements were entirely random and that trying to outsmart dice was a fool's errand.
		In another real stretch, Paulos describes the day, March 19, 2002, when the pound sterling and the Euro just happened to be in the relation that the Greeks called the golden ratio: one pound was worth 1.618 Euros.
		Paulos plays with the numbers and comments, ''an unscrupulous, but numerate hoaxer might have even cooked up some flapdoodle sufficiently plausible to make money from such a 'cosmic connection.' '' But nobody did, and it's hard to imagine that anyone would.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/11/02/books/review/02KUTTNET.html?ex=1383109200&en=c31975b833a3d61c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (678 words)

	Amazon.com: Once Upon a Number: Books: John Allen Paulos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Paulos (Innumeracy) insists that statistics cannot be disconnected from the stories?or narrative contexts?that attach them to the complexities of the world.
		Paulos turns to the Bible codes to demonstrate that it is the stories we tell about seemingly improbable coincidences, rather than the mathematics involved, that make them compelling.
		Paulos starts the book with a clearly absurd story, one that has numbers and statistics mixed in with a narrative.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465051588?v=glance (1813 words)

	John Allen Paulos Home Page
		All of Paulos' books are available at bookstores and through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Booksense.
		Paulos has appeared frequently on radio and television, including a four-part BBC adaptation of A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper and appearances on the Lehrer News Hour, 20/20, Larry King, and David Letterman.
		Paulos can be contacted at paulos at temple dot edu.
	www.math.temple.edu /~paulos (465 words)

	Online NewsHour: Election Math- November 22, 2000
		JOHN ALLEN PAULOS: The results are indistinguishable from chance.
		Were one to flip a coin six million times, the difference between the number of heads and the number of tails would be comparable.
		RAY SUAREZ: John Allen Paulos, let me go back to you on this question of faith.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/math_11-23.html (1318 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : Don't trust the headlines
		In case you need more confirmation of the iffiness of many health studies, John Ioannidis of the University of Ioannina in Greece, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, recently analysed 45 well-publicised studies from leading journals appearing between 1990 and 2003.
		As I have written before (although with a different number), it has been conclusively established that 43.58871563 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
		(John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University, Philadelphia.)
	www.hindu.com /2005/08/06/stories/2005080605151100.htm (641 words)

	Deltoid » John Allen Paulos on the Lancet study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Lancet study used the same techniques that Les F. Roberts, a researcher at Johns Hopkins and lead author of the study, used to investigate mortality caused by the wars in Bosnia, the Congo and Rwanda.
		That was all just some additional information for the hell of it, since I think everyone has already come to grips with that the Iraq survey by Roberts does not use the “same techniques” as previous ones.
		Sprey’s results make it clear that the most cautious estimate possible for the Iraqi excess deaths caused by the US invasion is far higher than the 8,000 figure imposed on the Johns Hopkins team by the fascist bell curve.
	timlambert.org /2006/01/paulos (7516 words)

	Title Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds.
		Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing.
		John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics at Temple University and the author of several other popular books on mathematics, is a regular contributor to national publications, including The New York Times and Newsweek.
	www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com /FSG/search/SearchBookDisplay.asp?BookKey=448617 (219 words)

	Amazon.com: Beyond Numeracy (Vintage): Books: John Allen Paulos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is almost a sequel to Innumeracy in which Paulos goes beyond the simple exposition of people's difficulties with math to teach, in a very readable fashion, to main concepts of mathematics, be it simple high school, college, or even the complex research mathematics.
		Paulos writes directly, usually without formulas, and if a particular essay doesn't click for you, keep turning, there's a new one in a few pages.
		Paulos always touches on the human aspects of math, such as the fractal nature of human consciousness or mathematics in ethics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067973807X?v=glance (1594 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Life \| Last word: John Allen Paulos
		In case you need more confirmation of the iffiness of many health studies, Dr John Ioannidis of the University of Ioannina in Greece, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, recently analysed 45 well publicised studies from leading journals appearing between 1990 and 2003.
		As I've written before (although with a different number), it's been conclusively established that 43.58871563% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
		· John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University, Philadelphia.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/lastword/story/0,13228,1541618,00.html (754 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper - John Allen Paulos - Paperback
		Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences John Allen Allen Paulos, Foreword by John Allen Paulos
		Paulos (Beyond Innumeracy) examines the often overlooked mathematical angle behind news stories in this informally written, enlightening survey.
		Paulos (Innumeracy) reminds us that editors and reporters lie with statistics; they dissemble, debase, and slant.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=he0SessBma&isbn=038548254X&itm=1 (590 words)

	John Allen Paulos receives prestigious AAAS Award for Public Understanding of S&T
		Paulos has communicated mathematics to audiences in the United States and abroad.
		In addition to the popular appeal these books have, Paulos has received glowing reviews in a broad spectrum of journals and periodicals.
		Perhaps best known for his monthly column on ABCNews.com, Paulos addresses issues in the news that have a mathematical angle to them.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-12/aaft-jap121803.php (374 words)

	Eye - BOOKS: John Allen Paulos -- A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper - 03.14.96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These repetition anecdotes are examples of mathematical problems current in our daily life, and it is the kind of thing that excites John Allen Paulos, a mathematician who loves to open the paper and expose all the stats-bending and numerical skanking that goes on inside.
		Paulos is softer, more inclined to believe that newspapers' flaws stem from their inherent limitations as a form.
		But, thanks to Paulos, I now know why the dog of the Senior Writer for a paper whose name you'd recognize in a second cleaned up in an NFL pool against supposedly wiser pundits from the sports pages.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.14.96/ARTS/bo0314b.htm (326 words)

	A Mathematician Plays the Market - John Allen Paulos - Penguin UK
		John Allen Paulos, one of the world’s most renowned mathematicians, decided there was only one way to find out: to take a gamble on the investment game himself.
		But he soon discovered that even a maths guru can’t beat the market, and making the numbers add up was far harder (and more addictive) than he could ever have imagined.
		Here he reveals the lessons he learnt the hard way: that randomness rules in the market; that technical analysis doesn’t work; that you should never believe the hype – and, that being smart doesn’t make you rich.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_014101203X,00.html?sym=REV (265 words)

	AAAS - Award for Public Understanding of Science & Technology
		John Allen Paulos is the recipient of the AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
		For more than two decades, John Allen Paulos has been communicating the pleasures and insights of mathematics to large audiences, both domestically and internationally.
		Paulos has addressed audiences ranging from those in classrooms to members of the Smithsonian, from Harvard's Nieman Fellows to its Hasty Pudding Club, from mathematical associations to stock market forums, and from NASA and the National Academy of Sciences to college gatherings, including the commencement assembly at the University of Wisconsin.
	www.aaas.org /aboutaaas/awards/public/public2003.shtml (299 words)

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