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Similar - I found math majors to be fairly humble. Yes, there's always the exception, but I found them to be fairly fun folks.

Physics majors, in my experience, had a significantly higher arrogance level.

I'm talking about professors at R1 schools and Ivies to be clear.

Yes, and those are the ones who didn’t make it to researcher.

Who's to say that you can't go into industry and not be a researcher? You don't have to stay in academia to do research. Many companies and industries tend to publish papers and some even work with universities for research.

I don't think that's what GP was saying, but I could be wrong.

No I’m saying the top tier mathematicians tend to work in academia because that’s where the most math is done (general trend with exceptions).

I think that is a fair statement to make. Thanks for clarifying :)