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People often don't understand that math is pretty much in all fields of STEM. For example students at my university start chemistry thinking they will be at most balancing chemical reactions or calculating concetrations, but then differential equations and linear algebra starts. During my first year about half of the students failed the introductory physics course.
I work in biology and the amount of people who work in the field because they hate maths is... considerable. As others have said, the field is almost entirely quantitative and statistics nowadays, so, lol