It Was My Understanding There Would Be No Math. I suspect the divide is less true, but still quite real.
As for the SNL trope using that line to make fun of Gerald Ford as if he were stupid, it should be noted that his degree was in Economics. That department uses a little math from time to time. Ford was a decent man, and would laugh at the jokes made about him, such as his clumsiness - he was a Collegiate All-Star in football who played in the yearly game against the NFL champions in 1935.
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Social pressure's a big thing too, whether you can do math or not. I was in a subgroup meeting at CERN, and one of the guys, making some light comments before the meeting began, said "We're all Democrats here." It wasn't true, of course--half the folks in the room weren't American and the speaker didn't know all the Americans very well, but being leftish was the default tribal position for university folks, even when they understood the numbers well enough for other things.
We're able to partition our lives. Sometimes that's good--even essential, e.g. for surgeons. Sometimes it leads us into strange hypocrisies.
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