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Numeracy’s Secret Connection with Life Outcomes

This chapter, “Numeracy’s Secret Connection with Life Outcomes,” reviews available evidence for numeracy’s relations with outcomes in health, employment, and personal finances. Less numerate people tend to be less healthy than the highly numerate, with a 40% greater likelihood, for example, of having at least one chronic disease. Numeracy skills also are required for many jobs, ranging from engineering and science to service and sales workers, but research on this topic is limited. Numeracy strongly predicts financial behaviors and wealth, over and above general intelligence. Although people say “I’m not a math person” as casually as “I hate broccoli,” math ability appears to play a critical role in their well-being.