Numeracy

Zahlenanalphabetismus (English innumeracy ) refers to computational failure and thus the weakness to present facts in numbers, or probabilities, or to understand issues numerically illustrated. Sometimes those number are illiterate, called Innumeraten.

John Allen Paulos, a mathematician, describes the weakness among other things as "mathematical illiterates tend to overestimate the frequency of accidents drastically and agreements of all kinds give great importance while making positive, not so spectacular statistical evidence much less impression on them. "

Zahlenanalphabetismus is not to be confused with dyscalculia, the weakness, to understand the rules of the payment system and to use ( dyscalculia ).