| Introduction | 3 |
| 1. Examples and Principles | 6 |
| 2. Probability and Coincidence | 25 |
| 3. Pseudoscience | 49 |
| 4. Whence Innumeracy? | 72 |
| 5. Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society | 99 |
| Close | 133 |
Material from INNUMERACY: MATHEMATICAL ILLITERACY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES by John Allen Paulos. Copyright 1988 John Allen Paulos. Used by permission of Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.