Verify my understanding of a math joke.

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I think it's about mathematicians over-analysing everything in complex logical terms when there might be some common-sense explanation. But it's a double-joke because doing maths is inherently antisocial and he's trying to fix his relationship by doing maths.


I was surfing in the site, reading past articles, and found this one.

For me, the comic represents Goodhart's law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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