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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif –After a radical 314-day study, a group of researchers have found an inexplicable connection between math level and depression score for kids ages 11-17. Throughout the past year, numerous studies have ultimately concluded that as kids’ math level increases, their depression score sharply increase as well.

However, this groundbreaking experiment proves to be extremely surprising for many professionals; the scientists conducting the experiment were particularly shocked at their findings.

Aside from the scientists, the students involved in the experiment themselves were gravely affected with post-traumatic stress after their participation. The increased exposure to the numbers themselves have proven to have an extremely negative effect on the kids.

“I can’t even look at numbers anymore,” AP Intro to Trigonometry BC student, Bern Oulli, said. “Just seeing them gives me flashbacks.”