Some interesting reads: adoption, cops with tanks, math, and deceit.

[SheilaT]

3. Alas, too many people just don't get math.

They did badly in high school algebra and have gone out of their way to forget what little they knew.

Which means, when presented with numbers of any kind, their eyes glaze over and they haven't a clue how to evaluate what's presented.

I have no cure for this. I can only say that I had an amazing high school math program (UICSM, which stands for the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics) from which I've retained large amounts some fifty years later. I've also taken more math as an adult, including a semester of calculus, and two different semesters of statistics and probability. Wow. I love that stuff. The important part is that I can generally understand math and statistics as presented in the media, which is enormou7sly helpful.