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Statisticians, is this true? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 weeks ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 44 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Statisticians are somewhere between Sociologists and Psychologists according Mathematicians and between Chemists and physicists according to Statisticians.

https://xkcd.com/435/

[–] silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 10 points 4 weeks ago

Between chemists and physicists is where I would place them too, as someone with a physics degree.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

philosophers way to the right of mathematicians saying "oh! I didn't notice you there"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

i'm an economist (basically advanced statistics with weird assumptions).
I'd rank them macro econ > sociology > psych > micro econ > stats > bio > chem > phys > > > math > > > > > > > > > > philosophy

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Prof Brian Cox once joked that Biology is basically a branch of the Arts