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Cognitive scientist Gerd Gigerenzer says that because we haven\'t learned statistical thinking, we don\'t understand risk and uncertainty..
But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated by statistics.
Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write.
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