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Complex Numbers
#489590 added February 21, 2007 at 4:51pm
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Aagh! Math!
This one's especially for those of you who get anxiety attacks just skipping past the intro to this blog.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007...

Math anxiety -- feelings of dread and fear and avoiding math -- can sap the brain's limited amount of working capacity, a resource needed to compute difficult math problems...

Good to know. However:

said Mark Ashcraft, a psychologist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas who studies the problem.

UNLV, huh? What did he use as study participants, card counters?

Peer review, people!

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