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"To be clear, I don't mean to minimize what all of that represents for many people, particularly those with any math anxiety, but I do think it's impossible to be a good-enough applied statistician without being numerate. For whatever it's worth, I never got past Calculus I in college, have never even taken a formal class on linear algebra, and my vision goes blurry anytime I see a page with more than one equation on it. That said, I do try to work on my math skills and numeracy, at least a bit, everyday. Thankfully we live in a world full of thoughtful experts trying to help the rest of us mere mortals become more numerate."
