re: More evidence that math is x-ist: Algebra is a "civil rights issue"

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Public speaking terrified me and I sucked so bad at it. That was the only college course I dreaded. Squeaked by with a B and was glad to escape relatively unscathed.

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I've never understood this. Because people speak all the time in public. It's just not in front of an audience. One theory I had is as students we are accustomed to looking at the backs of other people's heads as we face the front of class. When giving a presentation you are looking at everyone's face and it seems odd.