I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk. Gerd Gigerenzer More Quotes by Gerd Gigerenzer More Quotes From Gerd Gigerenzer Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome. Gerd Gigerenzer welcome surprise ideas Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. Gerd Gigerenzer information risk errors We have to learn to live with uncertainty. Gerd Gigerenzer uncertainty