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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=3543453&page=1BTW, Paulos' book, Innumeracy, is great fun. He talks about people's fundamental misunderstandings of numbers and math.
One of my favorite examples from the book is the TV weatherman who says "We have 50% chance of rain Saturday and 50% chance Sunday, so we have a 100% change of chance of rain this weekend."
Tamar