Meaning of numerophobe | Babel Free

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Someone who hates or is afraid of numbers.

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Examples

“If you are on the invisible other side of the mainstream, you are likely to be a humanist, maybe even an artist, maybe a numerophobe, or a person with a solid contempt for the cultural and intellectual style of right-wing youth.”

“Statistics and mathematics have⟳ been kept scarce and simple and even the most extreme 'numerophobe' should find⟳ nothing to produce⟳ anxiety or panic.”

“By painting the critics as mindless numerophobes, he implants the notion that their doubts are not to be entertained.”

“Even the biggest numerophobe would have⟳ a hard time poo-pooing something that tries to measure⟳ the one stat that matters in soccer (namely: how many did you score⟳?).”

“This post⟳ has math in it. Quite a bit. But it's really just arithmetic; decimals and multiplication. If you're a numerophobe, then skip⟳ to the end⟳, but you'll have⟳ to trust⟳ me on the numbers.”

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