New Math
Paper claims a reduction in gun crime and increase in confiscated arms. Problem is a few paragraphs later, the numbers show the opposite.
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December 31st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
More like “no math.” Then again, that was the defining characteristic of the new math- it wasn’t math in any meaningful sense of the word. The idea was apparently to have children that could understand advanced mathematical theories despite being unable to calculate a 15 percent tip.
This is the downside of a poor science and math education. It isn’t that people can’t do math and science, (you can always do something poorly) it’s that they have no way of telling good science from sciencey-sounding nonsense.
The end result is this- well intentioned idiots reducing the signal to noise ratio of fields like social science that already have very weak scientific grounding.