The Mathematical Hierarchy

Oh, the eternal struggle of every math enthusiast! Pure mathematics gets all the glory—bathed in the golden light of elegant proofs and beautiful equations. Meanwhile, statistics lurks in the shadows with its p-values, null hypotheses, and confidence intervals that make even seasoned mathematicians break into a cold sweat.

The truth? Mathematics is like that parent who has a favorite child. Calculus? Algebra? Number theory? Come bask in the light! Statistics? Go to your room and don't come out until you've normalized your distributions!

Every math department has that one hallway nobody talks about... where statisticians huddle together muttering about "sufficient sample sizes" while the pure mathematicians pretend not to know them at faculty parties.