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Statisticians, is this true?
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If statisticians are mathematicians then so are physicists and engineers.
Using math is different from being a mathematician. Mathematicians discover new mathematical principles, not just make use of existing ones.
Are you a programmer if you program programming languages, or a program programming programmer?
This is the difference between Computer Science (a field of mathematics) and Software Engineering (a field of engineering).
And as everyone knows theorems in statistics are brought to this world by storks.
Yeah I don't think this is the burn on statisticians OP makes it out to be. Lots of technical disciplines use mathematics, like... all of them I think? I don't know of any field that doesn't incorporate math that isn't purely artistic.
Also why are dentists catching strays?
Pretty much all art uses math in some form. Usually not a super formal thing but math is everywhere in art. Mostly concerning ratios.
"Statisticians are the dentists of mathematics" like, they do a very specialised job that a generalist would struggle to perform correctly without their level of specialised training, where performing their duties inadequately or forgoiing their services can completely disrupt the function of various area of life/business?
And by extension, so is a cashier.