Sentence examples for low numeracy from inspiring English sources

Not surprisingly, people with a low level of education tend to have low numeracy skills.

"The share of new graduates with low numeracy skills is the second highest after the Untied States," it added.

"The skills of young graduates are low compared to those of other countries," the authors said, with statistics showing the share of new graduates with low numeracy skills was the second highest after the US.

"For people who have low numeracy skills and might find it difficult to budget, the worry is it could be hard to understand which bits of the universal credit are for which bill," she continues.

Children with low numeracy skill (n = 30) were randomly allocated to two treatment groups.

Low numeracy is not only a strong predictor of school success but also associated with worse health care, greater likelihood of criminal behavior and incarceration, and higher risk for depression and other illnesses.

The overall proportion of low NVS scores could reflect a combination of both low numeracy-related skills and/or unfamiliarity with nutrition labels among Spanish speakers.

The country with the lowest numeracy skills was the United States, plummeting from once being one of the strongest education systems.

The degree of framing bias was significantly larger in the low-numeracy group (Mann–Whitney's test, grouping based on Schwartz-J, Z = −2.6, p < 0.01; Lipkus-J, Z = −2.8, p < 0.01).

In contrast, participants in the low-numeracy group rated the risk framed as a survival rate as being significantly more risky than the risk framed as a death rate (Table  4, Wilcoxon signed rank test, grouping based on Schwartz-J, Z = −2.7, p < 0.01; Lipkus-J Z = −3.0, p < 0.01).

We selected major osteoporotic fracture for this study because it addresses all bones and provides the highest percent risk of the two calculations, which may have more of an impact on a general population with low health numeracy.