Innumeracy in the Wild
Innumeracy in the Wild
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野外无数
DOI：
10.1093/oso/9780190861094.001.0001
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发表时间：
2020
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3.7
通讯作者：
Ellen Peters
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作者：
Ellen Peters
《野外无数》解释了数字能力如何支持我们做出的决策的质量，并最终影响我们所经历的生活结果。它剖析了人们对数字的擅长或不擅长的三种方式，以及每种数字能力对决策的影响。此外，它还深入探讨了我们如何利用这些知识来改进决策。由于人们普遍不识数，了解数字能力（通常称为算术）的作用在当今尤为重要。此外，健康和金融领域的政策已转向为消费者和患者提供更多信息（通常是数字）。这些变化旨在让个人能够掌控自己的福利。然而，证据很清楚，并不是每个人都准备好有效地使用这些信息，除非提供足够的支持，否则那些计算能力较差的人往往会做出更糟糕的决定。
本书讨论了四个要点：客观计算能力对判断和决策产生影响的复杂而系统的心理机制；算术对于体验积极的生活成果的重要性，尤其是在健康和财务方面；通过另外两种了解和使用数字的方式提供决策支持；以及利用现有证据的方法，使那些对数字不太熟悉的人能够更有效地使用它们，并在数字世界中做出更好的选择。
Innumeracy in the Wild explains how numeric ability supports the quality of the decisions we make and, ultimately, the life outcomes we experience. It dissects three ways that people can be good or bad with numbers and how each of these numeric competencies matter to decision making. Furthermore, it delves into how we can use this knowledge to improve decision making. Understanding the roles of numeric ability (often called numeracy) is particularly important today due to widespread innumeracy. In addition, policies in health and financial domains have shifted toward giving consumers and patients more information (which is often numeric). These changes are intended to empower individuals to take charge of their own welfare. The evidence is clear, however, that not everybody is prepared to use this information effectively and that those who are less numerate tend to make worse decisions unless provided adequate support.
The book discusses four main points: the complex and systematic psychological mechanisms that underlie objective numeracy’s effects in judgment and decision making; the importance of numeracy to experiencing positive life outcomes especially in health and finances; the decision-making support provided by two additional ways of knowing and using numbers; and the methods that exploit existing evidence and enable those who are less comfortable with numbers to use them more effectively and make better choices in an often numeric world.