Academic Jargon: Field-Specific Insults
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Every academic field seems to develop a set of generic insults based on their intellectual toolkit. Here are two examples I hear often:
- Probabilists and Statisticians: “I think that’s an interesting case, but it’s in a set with measure zero.”
- Economists: “X group’s behavior is clearly rent-seeking.”
Do any readers have good examples from other fields?
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