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Isn't all of machine learning, economics, industrial engineering and statistically social science a form of applied statistics ?

That's a lot of fields to dismiss by simply handwaving.

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Yes. These are exactly the sorts of soft science a pure mathematician would snub.

It's not, I think, that they're without utility, it's that the science involved in discovery is often accidental or observational.

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Yes. These are exactly the sorts of soft science a pure mathematician would snub.

It's not, I think, that they're without utility, it's that the science involved in discovery is often accidental or observational.

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