How to Fix Our Math Education

This illustrates that authors have no idea what they are talking about. I worked at a clinical lab at one point, and it is downright scary that the people who interpret your medical trials do not know how to calculate a standard deviation without using a TI calculator. Basically these people were not very good at math or abstract reasoning, yet they were taught the procedure how to calculate some particular result after a clinical trial, so they would abide by this procedure as if it was a holy incantation, which shows that in reality had no idea what they were doing, which is completely scary.

You don't fix math education by teaching less math.