#435: Purity explain

[Six characters are standing on a line with small ticks under each person. Above the two persons most central in the comic is an arrow pointing right. There are labels both above and below the arrow. Beneath each tick is a label. All the labels are listed here in order.]

Fields arranged by purity

More pure

Sociologists

Psychologists

Biologists

Chemists

Physicists

Mathematicians

[Above each of the six ticks, there is a person. The last person to the right is the mathematician. She stands at the far right edge of the comic, with much farther distance between her and the second to last person going right. The first four spaces between the first five people are of equal distance. Except for the least pure sociologist, they all say something addressed to the less pure person(s) on their left. The first mute person above the Sociologists tick is Megan. The second person above the Psychologists tick is a bald man with glasses and a goatee beard holding a book under one arm. The third person above the Biologists tick is a Cueball-like guy with a squirming octopus in his hand. The fourth person above the Chemists tick is Ponytail holding up a test tube with bubbles coming out of the top. The fifth person above the Physicists tick is Cueball standing with his hands in his sides. Farthest out, the sixth and final person above the Mathematicians tick is Blondie. She waves to the other five.]

Psychologist: Sociology is just applied psychology.

Biologist: Psychology is just applied biology.

Chemist: Biology is just applied chemistry

Physicist: Which is just applied physics. It’s nice to be on top.

Mathematician: Oh, hey, I didn’t see you guys all the way over there.