11.0. Language Arts/Mathematics/Social Studies Reading: On Being a Quant

I thought this article was interesting, and am going to put it up on the page of links under "Mathematics" and "Civics," but thought I should be posting when I am doing this stuff. The article refers to the book Moneyball by Michael Lewis, who normally writes about business matters. The book is about changing the way a baseball team is run in order to try and quantify things number. We use the word "quantify" in our logical essays, it means to understand or express something in quantities, or numbers. The word "quant" is a back formation (that's when people take a word and shorten it to make a new word that's faster to say) that means "a person who believes in understanding the world through the sophisticated use of statistics." Here's the link to the article, "The Statisticians on the Bus: How a Nerd Changed Political Reporting Forever," by Andrew Romano, at Newsweek's website.