Improving Comprehension of Numbers in the News

Published: May 7, 2016
Abstract
How many guns are there in the USA? What is the incidence of breast cancer? Is a billion dollar budget cut large or small? Advocates of scientific and civic literacy are concerned with improving how people estimate and comprehend risks, measurements, and frequencies, but relatively little progress has been made in this direction. In this article we describe and test a framework to help people comprehend numerical measurements in everyday...
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Title
Improving Comprehension of Numbers in the News
Published Date
May 7, 2016
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