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It is common for people to be strong in many areas of math but weak in calculus. It is an amazingly useful tool that allows you to solve things you wouldn't think possible. But most calculus classes end up being alphabet soup focusing on memorizing a few tricks. Because many math profs have never really had to use calculus in the "real world", they don't know how to teach it where the average student can really get into it.

Oddly enough, I find the MOST difficulty with statistics. Although George W. isn't exactly a paragon of intelligence, he really used the right phrase when he called it "fuzzy math." Statistics are so easy to manipulate, primarily because the axioms on which they are based are completely untested. If one statistics test doesn't get you the answer you want, there are many others with different underlying assumptions that might.

Whattya say BF? We can come up with the math test for HD women. I'll bet we could get published and garner at least a few footnotes in the next self-help book. We could use the SSM women as our case study.

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