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Thoughts on how to make numbers interesting and memorable to human beings so they can use those numbers to take action.
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Working with numbers and people
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Working with numbers and human beings
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And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
>> 2014
Photo by John Cummings (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0]
Photo by John Cummings (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0]
8 ways to
Work with numbers
8 ways to
Work with numbersMake numbers work
for human beings
1. Teach zoom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mozillaeu/10511749383/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mozillaeu/10511749383/in/photostream/
2. Gamblification works
place your bets
3. Create a sense of proportion
3,200wild tigers
4. Leave a trail to the source
5. Wax on, wax off
6. “percent” is an off-switch for the brain
“A 1,024% increase in new accounts”
7. Say what you see
8. Be the change...
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If you want them to do their homework, it might have the wrong effect
If you want to help someone to do something scary, the size of the
universe is a useful thing
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