/psy/ Psychology General - Why do people like math edition

[Anonymous No.11460623]

ITT we scientifically psychoanalyze mathfags.
>inb4 "neither science nor math"
Seethe, cope & project mathfag
So what infantile fixation is it that leads one to like math? What is it that draws someone to the misanthropic, antisocial and asocial world of abstract numbers?
My theory is that math draws social rejects because it lets them have a competition free outlet in which they may feel superior. Hence it feeds a superiority complex and represses an inferiority complex.

[Anonymous No.11460759]

>psychology
>psychoanalysis
neither science nor math

[Anonymous No.11461122]

>>11460759
Actually psychometrics have some of the best replication rates in science. You confuse psychology with sociology and anthropology.

[Anonymous No.11461172]

>>11460623
I'm a grad student in math. What draws me is an unstoppable desire to understand more.

[Anonymous No.11461200]

>>11461172
Yes anon, I see, but why not learn more about computer science or chemistry or even a social science? (inb4 projection meme about them not being rigorous). Or philosopher or even something related to your own life. Why math?

[Anonymous No.11461246]

>>11461200
Math is the lowest you can go. There's nothing more pure than exploring the consequences of our most basic assumptions. We know so little about such basic things. Like what do you know when you simply assume that there exists something as simple as a set? Not a lot, apparently. I want to know more.

Every other study feels almost like stamp collecting (I admit I'm plagiarizing here, but its how I feel). They all feel like something that will eventually be put into a model made up by mathematical pursuits.

[Anonymous No.11461603]

>>11461246
Sure but why do you think this and why does "pure" appeal to you? Why call other studies, which have been far more fruitful than modern theoretical math, mere "stamp collecting"?

[Anonymous No.11461610]

>>11460623
You definitely shouldn't be a psychologist.

[Anonymous No.11461616]

>>11461610
Ah yes, your oedipus complex is showing. Go fuck your mother

[Anonymous No.11462155]

>>11461122
>meme field based in "consciousness"
>such thing has never been seen it or properly described
>Ww-we do science too when replicate stuff based on arbitrary numbers
I blame med faggots for ruining this board but holy shit you are even worst, end your life cunt.

[Anonymous No.11462158]

>>11460623
Is Psychology a Pseudoscience?

[Anonymous No.11462254]

>>11460623
Psych doctorate here.
Let me be first to say, kys

[Anonymous No.11462267]

>>11460623
>Psychoanalyze
>Freud
>Math

Alright, I'll play along. My aunt used to scream the quadratic equation at me while sticking cardboard infinity symbols up my ass.