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Now, it's not just an English problem.
實(shí)際上，不僅英國存在這樣的的問題。
OECD this year released some figures looking at numeracy in young people,
OECD今年發(fā)布了一些關(guān)于青少年計(jì)算能力的數(shù)據(jù)，
and leading the way, the USA -- nearly 40 percent of young people in the US have low numeracy.
名單里領(lǐng)先的是美國，大約40%的美國青少年算術(shù)能力低下。
Now, England is there too, but there are seven OECD countries with figures above 20 percent.
英國也名列其中，但是有七個(gè)OECD國家的數(shù)據(jù)在20%以上。
That is a problem, because it doesn't have to be that way.
這就有問題了。因?yàn)榍闆r本不必如此。
If you look at the far end of this graph, you can see the Netherlands and Korea are in single figures.
在圖的最右端，可以看到荷蘭，韓國都是個(gè)位數(shù)。
So there's definitely a numeracy problem that we want to address.
所以，這里絕對(duì)有一個(gè)算術(shù)問題需要我們解決。
Now, as useful as studies like these are,
和這些研究同樣有用的是，
I think we risk herding people inadvertently into one of two categories; that there are two kinds of people:
我認(rèn)為我們無意間輕率地將人群分成了兩個(gè)類別，也就是這么兩種人：
those people that are comfortable with numbers, that can do numbers, and the people who can't.
對(duì)數(shù)字可以應(yīng)用自如、能夠把玩數(shù)字的人，和做不到這一點(diǎn)的人。
And what I'm trying to talk about here today is to say that I believe that is a false dichotomy.
今天，我想要探討的是，我認(rèn)為這是個(gè)錯(cuò)誤的二分法。
It's not an immutable pairing.
這并不是一成不變的組合。
I think you don't have to have tremendously high levels of numeracy to be inspired by numbers,
我認(rèn)為，你不需要高超的算術(shù)能力才能被數(shù)字所啟發(fā)，
and that should be the starting point to the journey ahead.
這應(yīng)該成為前路的起點(diǎn)。
And one of the ways in which we can begin that journey, for me, is looking at statistics.
對(duì)于我來說，這條路的起始點(diǎn)之一是著眼于統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)。
Now, I am the first to acknowledge that statistics has got somewhat of an image problem.
這里，我要首先承認(rèn)。統(tǒng)計(jì)是有那么一點(diǎn)兒畫面方面的問題的。
