In what sounds like it is a bit analogous to dyslexia, it seems some people just don’t have agood feel for numbers.
No word in the story as to how heritable number sense, or its lack, is.
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September 08, 2008
‘Math cluelessness’ may be in your genes
Labels:
heredity,
mathematics
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