http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_holt/?yrailAccording to Stanislas Dehaene, humans have an inbuilt "number sense"
capable of some basic calculations and estimates. The problems start
when we learn mathematics and have to perform procedures that are
anything but instinctive.
A fascinating read for those of us interested in quantity and life.
--Tom
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Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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