Lord Kelvin said "I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be." Even those who didn't have much math sometimes wished that they did. Chuck Darwin said "I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics; for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense."
I remember talking to a field biologist studying three genetic male morphs of some screwy freshwater fish. In passing, I said " Of course all three forms have to have the same average fitness, over the long term." He said " Why?", because he was an idiot. Speaking of which – general intelligence and math ability are fairly well correlated. Maybe a lot of these low-math types just aren't very smart.
Hahahahaaaa!!! That is ME laughing at YOU, cruel world.
-Jordan Rixon
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not Honor more.
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