Here is my response to Andrew Gelman's post on his blog. I am posting it here since that comment is not yet up.
The word mathematics(or mathematical) means different things depending on whether you are a mathematician, a physicist, a computer scientist, a statistician, an economist, a social scientist a journalist, a businessman or belong to any other species. In my part of the world there is a phrase for scheming or cunning manipulation which literally translates into English as "playing mathematics".
But going by what "good" mathematicians mean by mathematical I would consider it a great compliment if a piece of interesting statistical work or anything else for that matter is called mathematical in that sense.
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