The term "innumeracy" is a neologism, coined by analogy with illiteracy. It established a "Special Assistance Program" to address illiteracy and innumeracy in primary schools. Innumeracy has been seen in those suffering from poor education and childhood deprivation of numeracy. Topics include probability and coincidence, innumeracy in pseudoscience, statistics and trade-offs in society. By contrast, innumeracy (the lack of numeracy) can have a negative impact. The book sheds light on the link between innumeracy and pseudoscience. For example, innumeracy distorts risk perception towards health decisions and may negatively affect economic choices. Distinguishing fact from opinion, cognitive biases, and innumeracy are all challenges to sound data analysis. The problems of innumeracy come at a great cost to society. Journalists suffering from innumeracy may also be a source of view-from-nowhere reports. Patterns of innumeracy have also been observed depending on age, gender, and race. Innumeracy is a problem with many otherwise educated and knowledgeable people. "Innumeracy" refers to a lack of ability to reason with numbers. Innumeracy also makes it difficult or impossible for some patients to read medical graphs correctly.