Duality

starring me as myself

featuring you as the person who got all my money

This ALSO reminds me of something that I just learned

In yesterday's lecture for my statistics class I learned that people using the normal distribution to try and measure the stock market contributed to the 2008 crisis. While the range of potential daily outcomes looks pretty close to a bell curve, this distribution it dramatically underestimates the frequency of days that are several standard deviations below the mean. So people were caught off guard when they had several very bad days which caused them to panic which caused other people to panic which caused... well you know how these things go

People always joke about statistics being lies but it's just humans that screw up interpreting them (sometimes deliberately sometimes not)

Mathematicians: the people responsible for making sure our money doesn't get panicked into a crisis.

I still maintain though that statistics is the least mathematics-like form of mathematics around. 'Normal' maths deals with fully abstracted quantity-entities or idealised infinite continua or the properties of conceptualised structures as a collective or things like that. Statistics is just 'this dot is a weird thing we found over there' and 'when you put the dots together you see most of the dots are here which means most of the things are like this'. Someone derived the principles of statistics from calculus somehow by some discrete-continuous conversion voodoo but it's still one of the most fuzzy areas out there as far as foundations are concerned. Ironically it's an outlier from its own field