[lambdapie]

Parable of the Polygons[0] is another example of mathiness, where math is used to dress up a political message. The basic idea is simple and intuitive: people like diversity, but also don't like to be in the minority (e.g. they would like a 60/40 ratio of people of the same race to them vs people of different races). But when everyone applies this logic then you get completely homogenous regions.

The mathiness comes through the fact that the simulation is nothing like real life (e.g.people care about far more than their immediate neighbors) and yet the claim is that tweaking the parameters of this model gives some intuition about the quantitative real life effect.

[0] http://ncase.me/polygons/