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I'm really interested in male and female brains and whether female brains or male brains are better at maths. You sit men and women down and give them a maths test and they will do fairly equally. Then you set up the same test, but with different people, and make them tick a box to say whether they are a man or a woman, and the women do significantly worse in the maths test than they did previously in a group set.

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Men are not as scared to lose and they've got a lot more time to devote to, not exactly pointless things, but to being good at things like Countdown.

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I see the maths face quite a lot. It's the blind panic that they have to do maths in front of people. It's just fear and dread. There's definitely a maths face – try it on someone.

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More than other subjects there's a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to enjoy it, so I think it's less accessible for people. Even the word maths makes people screw their face up.

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When you tell people that you are studying maths at uni, they are like, Oh …. Especially a blonde Essex girl.

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Rachel Riley

Rachel Riley

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Born: January 11, 1986 (age 40)

Bio: Rachel Annabelle Riley is an English television presenter and mathematician who currently co-presents the Channel 4 daytime puzzle show Countdown, its comedy spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Sky Sports' Friday Night Football.

Known for:

Countdown (Since 1982)
Strictly Come Dancing (Since 2004)
It's Not Rocket Science (Since 2016)
The Gadget Show (Since 2004)

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