Seems like oftentimes the first thing folks with strong mathematic skills and underdeveloped "humanities" skills do upon encountering a complex or ambiguous situation is to build a clean, well-defined model of their understanding, climb into it, and then lose sight of its fundamental insufficiency.

IDK, just thinking out loud about how often I see clever engineers espousing poorly-reasoned ideologies, and how often it seems to be the "the humanities are worthless" crowd doing it.