Year: <span>2023</span>

No Billionaires: We’re ridiculously poor at understanding big numbers

To reiterate how poor humans are at judging the differences between big numbers take a look at the Reuters headline regarding Barclays Bank in the UK. “Barclays hit by $361 million penalty over issuance of securities” That is a tremendous amount of money; over a third of a billion dollars. …

No Billionaires: We’re ridiculously poor at understanding big numbers

To reiterate how poor humans are at judging the differences between big numbers take a look at the Reuters headline regarding Barclays Bank in the UK. “Barclays hit by $361 million penalty over issuance of securities” That is a tremendous amount of money; over a third of a billion dollars. …