PhDs in math are not in fact rare, and having attended numerous cryptography conferences I can assure you they're a lot more socially normal that computer nerds in general are.
The irony being that your mathy conferences didn't mention the observational bias of conferences themselves filtering towards "socially normal people" than "computer nerds in general"
You are comparing those who speak a language very few can fathom to a magnitude more, less specialized, more general base, which in itself, is a superset of math nerds.
Almost all math nerds are "computer nerds" to the-non STEM type.
Control for proper prevalence and youll find your circle is much smaller than you wish you would believe.
You are comparing those who speak a language very few can fathom to a magnitude more, less specialized, more general base, which in itself, is a superset of math nerds.
Almost all math nerds are "computer nerds" to the-non STEM type.
Control for proper prevalence and youll find your circle is much smaller than you wish you would believe.