This article in Wired this month is right along the lines I've been thinking for a while now. Our current education priorities so poorly set our kids up to deal with the world of today.
I truly think it's not useful to have opinions on a large range of topics without understanding how statistics and probability factor in.
If we're clueless about correlation vs. causation, anecdotal vs. statistical, how can we make sense of the world?
This dovetails with the thoughts I put down last month on the Tyranny of Intuition. If we can't make good educated judgments on something, then we're left with making our best uneducated judgments instead. Which I think is setting our selves up for an epic fail.
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