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Math academic community is actually very healthy overall, in my experience.
by a-nikolaev 8y ago
Math academic community is actually very healthy overall, in my experience.
- WilliamEdward 8y agosee: monty hall problem But anyway, mathematics is not any more unhealthy than any other field, but it does have toxicity like all others do as well.
- rocqua 8y agoGiven the anecdotal correlation between math and autism, and the effects of autism on sociability, one might expect mathematics to have different toxicity. I never went deep enough into mathematical academia to judge, let alone getting into other fields to allow for a comparison.
- ssmmww 8y agoMy understanding is that the Monty Hall problem was just a cute puzzle published in a pop-sci magazine that confused a few professors who perhaps ought not to have been confused by it. I don't think it says anything at all about the health of the mathematical community.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoIt was also ambiguously worded, which is the bane of probability problems posed by people who think they are clever (like vos Savant).
- mannykannot 8y agoI will repeat what I wrote about this point a couple of weeks ago: According to vos Savant, in most of the cases where the correspondent actually had a correction to offer for her alleged error, they were assuming the intended interpretation of the puzzle.
- WilliamEdward 8y agoYour understanding of the history of the problem is lacking and you've caused me to get downvoted as a result, thanks for that. The professors were misogynistic towards her as they could not believe a woman could solve this problem. She even addressed this.