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<p>Some, perhaps. Sometimes it seems as if schools have been far more successful in teaching math anxiety than math itself. But plenty of us “English” types are perfectly good at math and comfortable with numbers, it just isn’t what interests us. I think a lot of it has to do with how badly math–and science–is, or has been, taught. In my HS days, both were mostly a matter of brute memorization. If English were taught that way, it would be excruciating, too.</p>
<p>But I’m sorry, that is somewhat OT for this thread. Except in as much as it leads people to think they don’t have sufficient math aptitude for various careers.</p>