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This piece briefly introduces my Painting By Numbers, which aims to take the core messages of the QL/QR community from academic and professional circles to the rest of the citizenry. I describe the book in the context of the critical need for the most basic numeracy tools to help consumers of news, information, and analysis--delivered through traditional and contemporary social media outlets--determine where a reported numerical result lies on the scale from utter nonsense to a widely established and accepted "fact." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]