S001 | How good are you at working with fractions? | good with fractions |
S002 | How good are you at working with percentages? | good with percentages |
S003 | How good are you at calculating a 15% tip? | good at tip |
S004 | How good are you at figuring out how much a shirt will cost if it's 25% off? | shirt 25% off |
S005 | When reading the newspaper, how helpful do you find tables and graphs that are parts of a story? | tables and graphs helpful |
S006 | When people tell you the chance of something happening, do you prefer that they use words ("it rarely happens") or numbers ("there's a 1% chance")? | chance in words vs numbers |
S007 | When you hear a weather forecast, do you prefer predictions using percentages (e.g., "there will be a 20% chance of rain today") or predictions using only words (e.g., "there is a small chance of rain today")? | weather forecast |
S008 | How often do you find numerical information to be useful? | numerical info useful |
avgSNSscore | | Numeracy average score |
total | | total of the 8 SNS questions |