Mathematician or Physicist

I say that physicists are smarter than mathematicians. You say?

 

As a mathematician I find this question vaguely formulated. Which criteria should one use to decide whether a group of people is more intelligent than another group of people, the average IQ of the group, the highest IQ in a group?

As far as the two groups mentioned in the question there are “embarrassing” situations such as, Edward Witten, a physicist being awarded the Fields prize for mathematics and Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematician being awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.

 

I say physics is harder than mathematics because it involves more word problems than anything else.

 

physics is harder, and math is its "right hand"

 

Absolutely. I concur.