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How Cancer Doctors Failed Her | Hannah Fry

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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Is There a Difference Between Mathematicians and Non-Matt Mathematikians?

I don't think that everybody is destined to be someone who sits all these exams, right? But I do think that what can happen is because people are traumatized by this subject, they can end up being just very dismissive of it and scared of engaging with it. Because now that we're in a world where algorithms and artificial intelligence and data is shaping so much of everything, I think that if you recoil from any of those conversations, then I think that sometimes people end up being exploited. And I've seen people use like graphs and data to kind of intimidate people into doing what they want them to do. It's important that you can just open up this subject. Maybe not to make

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