I’ve taught mathematics at community colleges for over 20 years and I’m absolutely convinced that not all people can learn algebra or calculus.
It's obviously genetic, says the mathemetician.
I tried once to ask reddit's Anthropologists about what cultural artifacts are affected by genetics e.g. how lactose intolerance can affect a local culture. The question was apparently racist and then taken down.
I once asked an obvious lead in to a racist argument and was called a racist. It must be a conspiracy.
[Generic pontificating on the nature of society from the fount of the infinite wisdom of my anus] (it's multiple comment threads, and the free square on your HN bingo card)
You write web servers that need more boxes and serve less traffic than was standard 10 years ago. Why would anyone listen to you on any topic.
I'll be honest, most math teachers either aren't very good at teaching math, or they're assholes who alienate their students and make them associate math with feeling terrible, probably because scrotums like this guy imply it makes them genetically inadequate if they struggle with new material.
Every math class I got through and every time I used math in a science class, it was all self-taught., frankly
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100% checks out: barely passed Math and failed Calculus horribly in high school, both my teachers were massive assholes. In Uni got fucking 95+% in all my math courses because I had an awesome prof who wrote the spiral-bound "textbooks" which were sold for almost nothing (~$5).