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I think when someone says “I’m not a math person” what they are really saying is I don’t like math and therefore I don’t want to do math. They are not necessarily saying they are genetically predisposed to not do well in math.</p>
<p>I agree entirely about the ADD thing though. What a bunch of hooey IMO… I know that the condition exists for some people, but there is a lot of research out there that suggests it is way beyond over-diagnosed these days. It’s kind of like Celiac disease… only 1% of the population actually have it, but 20% pretend they do just to say they eat “gluten free”.</p>
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<p>To some extent, yes… However, if you don’t have at least a moderate foundation to start college on, your boat is going to sink. In theory, the moderately prepared student will have time to learn new material while occasionally re-learning old material to fill in the gaps. If a student is grossly underprepared though, he or she likely wont have enough time to fill in all of the gaps in order to catch up. However, given two students, one moderately prepared and one very prepared, I think both can accomplish the same level of success, but student #1 is going to have to work a little harder at it.</p>