The elephant in the room is there really isn't a huge amount you can do well and effectively in humanities if you don't know some reasonably serious math.
The replication crisis is a thing and it's a huge embarrassment for modern universities. Are you convinced by this argument using statistical analysis as evidence or not? You need an answer. You can't shuffle that off to someone else to think for you and take your learning on the matter seriously. We've seen that pretty conclusively now.
The math department needs to take its share of the blame for turning so many off this utterly essential pillar of education.
I think it’s a symptom of a larger problem. Teachers can’t not pass students, and so people make it to (and through) college without knowing the material from the classes they passed.
The only thing special about math here is that this is especially transparent.
This is the "go to" excuse for academics who are as lazy as all get out and refuse to make more than the bare minimum of effort in their thinking and preparation of teaching.
"The students are too stupid and or lazy and we're not allowed to just fail them even though we have taught them next to nothing."
Note that the replication crisis involves researchers, most of whom did very, very well academically having worked hard and been clever, before taking that success on to becoming academics. That's kind of how it works.
So no "We can't fail people" is a non-starter here. It's totally bogus and needs to be treated with withering contempt along with any academic pushing such errant nonsense.
The replication crisis is a thing and it's a huge embarrassment for modern universities. Are you convinced by this argument using statistical analysis as evidence or not? You need an answer. You can't shuffle that off to someone else to think for you and take your learning on the matter seriously. We've seen that pretty conclusively now.
The math department needs to take its share of the blame for turning so many off this utterly essential pillar of education.