Most of them won't do mathematics research. And since realistically it is quite hard to both innovate in mathematics and in an applied field at the same time, the differentiation is valid.
Xandi
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*Gay orgy during Covid lockdown. That's why Belgian police even cared.
Could also be that he wants elections in Summer, when everyone is on vacation.
I think the chasm really is within the statistics discipline, less so between statistics a d mathematics. If you're doing statistics research you're essentially a mathematician in the statistics subfield. If you're applying statistics in another field, you're a statistician in the professional worker sense.