Meaning of numerophobe | Babel Free

Definitions

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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