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Podcast: Three Equals Five
Episode: One Two Three (Census Data, Government Policy, and Basic Mathematics)
Description: Different people have different inherent biological limitations: color recognition, spatial awareness, physical strength, processing emotions, and other. But do the masses of people have a significant limitation in their ability to visualize or understand basic mathematics - counting and percentages? What does that mean for society, democracy, and a representative form of government in the current technological age? How could they hope to understand basic concepts of data, statistics, science, and engineering that is widely presented as crucial to sustain and advance in a highly technologically dependent world? Will they then be manipulated even moreso by that lack of...