88% of adults worldwide are incompetent at math
Nope, this isn’t a joke about writers’ math skills: Just 12% of adults around the world are numerically literate, according to an enormous global literacy study.
Which means that 88% of your audience members may find your bar charts, financial objectives and other communications involving numbers discombobulating.
Welcome to the world of numeracy, or numerical literacy, today, according to the to the 2013 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, or PIAAC.
PIAAC is an enormous, every-10-year study of adult literacy, developed and organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The study seeks to determine how well adults are prepared to function in today’s society.
Here’s how they stack up …
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Take the ‘Numb’ Out of Numbers
Help readers understand and care about your stats
Even those of us who are competent at math still feel our eyes roll back in our heads when we see paragraphs packed with numbers.
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You’ll learn how to avoid statistics soup and data dumps, help readers “see” your data — even make readers care about your statistics with a simple reframing process. Plus, you’ll learn how to make every piece you write easier to read and understand.
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