[da_chicken]

I don't think it's rude at all.

From the title, I'm very interested in the topic since a portion of my job is some form of data analysis and aggregation.

However, it's been 15 years since my Linear Algebra course and I haven't done Multivariate Calculus since high school, which even then was just a very basic introduction to the topic. I'm too far removed from that level of math at this point in my life. Further, the data I'm looking at doesn't often lend itself toward linear regressions or mathematical analysis. At least, not in a meaningful sense. It's rare that even a simple standard deviation is even particularly useful.

I appreciate that the author tells me up front the type of paper being presented isn't the type of paper I'm interested in reading even though.