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by Fomite 1310 days ago
The application of mathematics is, however, not objective.

To use your last sentence about statistics, how you choose to handle variables, how they're put into regression models, and how those results are interpreted all have potentially subjective and cultural aspects to them.

As someone who works on mathematical and statistical models for a living, there's plenty of opportunities for subjectivity, from how methods are applied to what questions are considered important.