Psychology Memes

The scientific hierarchy complex in one perfect comic! Mathematicians casually existing in their abstract realm while everyone else squabbles about which discipline is more "pure." Physics majors thinking they're the pinnacle of applied science, chemists feeling superior to biologists, and poor sociologists at the far end getting roasted as "applied psychology." The academic superiority complex is strong with this one! Meanwhile, mathematicians are off in their own universe of pure abstraction, blissfully unaware that the rest of science even exists. As someone who survived undergrad physics, I can confirm this hierarchy is discussed with deadly seriousness in department lounges everywhere.

Ever notice how math people get weirdly territorial about their symbols? The psychology student innocently questions why π appears in a Gaussian distribution formula, and the math student responds with the academic equivalent of "you wouldn't get it." The irony is delicious. While explaining where π comes from (that beautiful Laplace integral), the meme perfectly demonstrates the communication gap between disciplines. Math folks are too busy admiring the elegant connection between exponential functions and π to realize they sound like pretentious calculators. For the record, π shows up everywhere in mathematics because the universe has a bizarre obsession with circles. Not because your IQ needs to meet a minimum requirement.