somervta comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: somervta 04 December 2012 06:35:06PM 3 points [-]

It's not going to happen because it would disqualify too many candidates and make courses unpopular. Maths is a huge turn off for a lot of people.

Indeed. This is a bug, not a feature, and alas, it holds these fields back.

I disagree that this is a bug, not a feature. I think it's useful for fields to contain people with different styles of thinking

I suspect that the negative attitude towards math has less to do with personality type and more to do with the execrable state of mathematics education.