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Does questioning what you're doing and why result in a better overall product? I would say yes.

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I've been in a mathematical philosophy course that was 50/50 stem/humanities and the difference was striking and very interesting

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the stem people were far more efficient at getting to the core of a matter and better at asking precise questions, but on the other hand

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the humanities people asked some of the more fuzzy questions that would never have occurred to the stems

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concrete example that happened: "what if we make this x > 1 [in this formalism that doesn't allow x to be 1 because it's a probability]"

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