>>12602724This is not to mention how heavily mathematics, as a discipline, is oriented toward deductive reasoning, to the point that some people who are sufficiently fluent in it to practice science or (especially) engineering in some narrow domain or other, are oblivious to the importance of a firm and comprehensive memory for detail, anecdotal or technical, to inductive reasoning. Stories about people in such professions, who fall for simple scams, are drawn into cults, or become driveling mountebanks who believe their own advertising with an almost touching trust in their own speculative excesses, are a whole genre of journalism and literature, as well as one of the greatest feast for the able satirist.