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British researchers have discovered the real reason students don’t like math. According to the British Economic and Social Research Council young people avoid studying math because mathematicians are imagined to be socially awkward slobs. The studies revealed that most students buy into a traditional stereotype that views the average mathematician as “an old middle-class white man who is obsessed by his science, devoid of most social skills and love life.” (Pravda)