[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday waffle...

> Having lived through this transition and, thus, of course, having
> only a frog in a well's perspective on what was really going on, I
> offer the following observations.

"Frog in a well"? I've not heard that lesbian slang in quite some time.

> I discovered that his contact with
> mathematics had ended with Algebra I.  He was clueless when it came
> to the notion of limits on which the calculus is constructed.

In the work that I currently do, we deal with a great amount of numbers. Many 
of these are 
averages or percentages, and most of these are logarithms. I and my business 
partner have 
noticed that all of the engineers immediately understand how to look at a page 
of these 
numbers, but the non-engineers (mostly marketing people) are completely 
clueless about 
numbers. They make bad business decisions because they don't understand numbers.

And it's nearly impossible to explain these numbers to non-technical people. 
They simply 
can't understand them. I explain it carefully and next week, they misunderstand 
all over 
again. In our weekly and monthly reports to clients, we've begun to leave out 
many numbers 
because they're misleading.

yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com

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