<p>John Allen Paulos shares about his new book, Who’s Counting, on episode 429 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br />
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>We do speak in probabilities our whole lives. Most of us speak it badly, but we do speak it.<br />
-John Allen Paulos</p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.math.temple.edu/~paulos/whos_counting.html">Who&#8217;s Counting? Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More, by John Allen Paulos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1553822913983381506?s=21&amp;t=62_pV5GgdtBMlTVHOjEOag">Mathematics cartoon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnallenpaulos/status/1554110318657167360?s=21&amp;t=62_pV5GgdtBMlTVHOjEOag">Pun</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem">Bayes theorem</a></li>
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