It is innumerate, blind to statistics and to the costs of saccharine indulgence.
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It may be hard for younger fans to grasp how innumerate baseball was.
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Numerate people often become innumerate when they're faced with those numbers in that context.
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True, this tactic will work only if news coverage is both gullible and innumerate.
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Perhaps his biggest draw was his thinly veiled disdain for the innumerate punditry that ruled the airwaves.
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It is biased, tribal, and innumerate; it favors the close over the far, the one over the many.
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A day earlier, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton sparked criticism by warning that "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would steal Australian jobs.
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It would seem parents must force politicians to spend into bankruptcy or else doom their illiterate, innumerate children to a menial existence.
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Much of the present skepticism about our fellow citizens' behavior is rooted in a suspicion that most of us are frankly innumerate.
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But they may struggle to afford even a simple feature phone, and the illiterate and innumerate especially may find using it daunting at first.
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But judging from the coverage of the deal so far, assuming that the news media will be gullible and innumerate seems like a good bet.
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Macron is so far ahead that a polling miss would make Brexit and Trump look like a rounding error: Anyone who says "Le Pen can win because Trump!" is basically innumerate.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's immigration minister brought border security and immigration to the center of the 2016 election campaign, warning that resettling "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would strain the social safety network and take Australian jobs.
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Related: Ignoring the Facts, Australia's Immigration Minister Calls Refugees 'Illiterate and Innumerate' Either way, the results will almost certainly mean that the smaller parties and independents will come to play kingmakers in the eventual results.
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Empathy is also innumerate, Dr. Bloom notes, which is why you may care more about one girl stuck in a well than thousands of war refugees or millions of people who will be affected by climate change.
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Australia's immigration minister has described refugees as "illiterate and innumerate" people who would both "take Australian jobs" and "languish" in unemployment — comments swiftly denounced as xenophobic and offensive by opponents but backed by the country's prime minister.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in the midst of a tight election campaign, came under fire on Thursday for backing his immigration minister over claims resettling "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would strain the social safety network.
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Nonetheless, some take solace from Clinton's plurality — it wasn't a majority despite the assertions of some, apparently innumerate, Democrats — among voters nationally and the fact that Democrats have secured popular vote victories in six of the last seven presidential elections.
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There's no guarantee that he beats her in the next round, of course, but Macron is so far ahead that a polling miss would make Brexit and Trump look like babytown frolics: Anyone who says "Le Pen can win because Trump!" is basically innumerate.
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Related: United Nations Condemns Australia Over 'Inhuman' Treatment of Asylum Seekers Australia's immigration minister has described refugees as "illiterate and innumerate" people who would both "take Australian jobs" and "languish" in unemployment — comments swiftly denounced as xenophobic and offensive by opponents but backed by the country's prime minister.
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Morrison's main appeal is that he beat out the man who started the spill, Peter Dutton, a repellent Ted Cruz figure who is the subject of a Senate inquiry for helping friends and donors keep two au pairs — one French and one Italian — in the country while the asylum seekers he has dismissed as "illiterate and innumerate" are stuck in a hellscape on two island detention centers.
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" Related: Ignoring the Facts, Australia's Immigration Minister Calls Refugees 'Illiterate and Innumerate' A spokesperson for the office of the Secretary General of the UN in New York told VICE News that, contrary to some of the allegations above, "[t]he UN has systems in place that aim to respond effectively to serious human rights violations, as well as to prevent them," and that Rohingya rights abuses were a serious concern, adding "we have proactively spoken up on this issue both publicly and in our official contacts.
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The mathematics student now becomes "illiterate" by standards of the English major and the English major becomes "innumerate" by standards of the mathematics major. Because knowledge is increasing, some fragmentation of disciplines is inevitable. The problem with fragmentation is that students are forced to live in ignorance of studies outside of their fields.
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Effective analysts are generally adept with a variety of numerical techniques. However, audiences may not have such literacy with numbers or numeracy; they are said to be innumerate. Persons communicating the data may also be attempting to mislead or misinform, deliberately using bad numerical techniques.Bloomberg-Barry Ritholz-Bad Math that Passes for Insight- October 28, 2014 For example, whether a number is rising or falling may not be the key factor.
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This article contains lists of official third party or independent candidates associated with the 2008 United States presidential election. Third party is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to political parties other than the two major parties, the Democratic Party and Republican Party. The term is used as innumerate shorthand for all such parties, or sometimes only the largest of them. An independent candidate is one who runs for office with no formal party affiliation.
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Facing the problem that innumerate mothers could not write down the weights of their children, he devised a mechanism attached to scales that could mark the weight directly onto a chart. Morley started the earliest trials of the measles vaccine, in which he included his own children. He also devised an asthma inhaler made from old plastic drink bottles, and a simple Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) measuring tape for detecting severe malnutrition. Another of his innovations was sterilising water by placing it in sunlight.
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Those who lack or have limited health numeracy skills run the risk of making poor health-related decisions because of an inaccurate perception of information. For example, if a patient has been diagnosed with breast cancer, being innumerate may hinder her ability to comprehend her physician's recommendations, or even the severity of the health concern. One study found that people tended to overestimate their chances of survival or even to choose lower-quality hospitals. Innumeracy also makes it difficult or impossible for some patients to read medical graphs correctly.
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An Appreciation In the course of our journey of 20 years, we are heavily indebted to all our stakeholders who have, and continue to support our progress. Notable among these are the Archdiocese of Gulu and all its parishes, the Church of Uganda Diocese of Northern Uganda and the community of Laliya Sub County. In a special way, we acknowledge the contribution of, the Board of Governors of the school and the Board of Trustees, our old students and the current student community. To all of you and others, we cannot innumerate here, we wish to say 'THANK YOU' for the momentous journey we continue to travel together.
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