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by jaffa2 246 days ago
Theres always an xkcd : https://xkcd.com/435/
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Nice line, but it isn't fully complete. After the Mathematicians there's Logic - and Philosophy - And in the end you complete the circle and go all back to Sociology again.

One issue I sometimes witnessed myself was that Mathematicians sometimes form Groups that behave like pathological examples from Sociology. E.g. there was the Monty-Hall problem, where societies of mathematicians had a meltdown. Sadly I've seen this a few times when Sociology/Mass psychology simply trumped Math in Power.