{"id":3246,"date":"2021-12-20T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/?post_type=news&p=3246"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:24:48","slug":"people-who-are-bad-with-numbers-often-find-it-harder-to-make-ends-meet-even-if-they-are-not-poor","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/news\/people-who-are-bad-with-numbers-often-find-it-harder-to-make-ends-meet-even-if-they-are-not-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"People who are bad with numbers often find it harder to make ends meet \u2013 even if they are not\u00a0poor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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News<\/span> | <\/span>The Conversation<\/span> | <\/span>December 2021<\/span><\/p>\n\n

People who are bad with numbers often find it harder to make ends meet \u2013 even if they are not\u00a0poor<\/h1>\n\n\n

People who are bad with numbers are more likely to experience financial difficulties than people who are good with numbers. That\u2019s according to\u00a0our analyses<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Lloyd\u2019s Register Foundation World Risk Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this World Risk Poll, people from 141 countries were asked if 10% was bigger than, smaller than or the same as 1 out of 10. Participants were said to be bad with numbers if they did not provide the correct answer \u2013 which is that 10% is the same as 1 out of 10.\u00a0Our analyses<\/a>\u00a0found that people who answered incorrectly are often among the poorest in their country. Prior studies in the\u00a0United States<\/a>,\u00a0United Kingdom<\/a>,\u00a0the Netherlands\u00a0and\u00a0Peru<\/a>\u00a0had also found that people who are bad with numbers are financially worse off. But\u00a0our analyses of the World Risk Poll<\/a>\u00a0further showed that people who are bad with numbers find it harder to make ends meet, even if they are not poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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