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[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 29 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

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

https://xkcd.com/435/

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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

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