{"id":8509,"date":"2011-04-24T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2011-04-24T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T08:00:40","slug":"why-humanities-people-should-care-about-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8509","title":{"rendered":"Why Humanities People Should Care About Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worstprofessorever.com\/2011\/02\/21\/guest-post-why-humanities-people-should-care-about-math\/\">Guest Post: Why Humanities People Should Care About Math<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyone in the traditionally \u201chumanistic\u201d fields (what a dumb term) would see this as a great instance of why it\u2019s awesome to know foreign languages: you can\u2019t be left out of the conversation. No one can pull the wool over your eyes. You can\u2019t be the butt of a joke perpetrated right in front of your face. By knowing a foreign language, you remove an invisible barrier between you and the rest of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of my colleagues (with kids, and very involved in their education) has made the point that if more effort were made to point out that math is a language, then there might be less of a tendency to let people slide in learning it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Campaign claims, legislation, environmental movements\u2026 even the weather \u2014 they\u2019re all conducted with copious references to mathematics, usually in the form of statistics. And the simple fact is, I can convince you of just about anything if I whip out the right statistics and you\u2019re not sure what I\u2019m doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8467\">Not everything<\/a>, of course, as it&#8217;s been recently observed (again).  But convinced of a lot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post: Why Humanities People Should Care About Math Anyone in the traditionally \u201chumanistic\u201d fields (what a dumb term) would see this as a great instance of why it\u2019s awesome to know foreign languages: you can\u2019t be left out of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}