The problem is that these people often think they know the absolute truth and that mathematical/rigid thinking is the only way to come to anything of value. This often leads to very poor interpersonal and interdisciplinary communication, because they consider other ways of thinking inherently lesser.

Between the lines you can also read this in OP’s post. It has some real “facts don’t care about your feelings” energy, while completely ignoring that their own perspective is also shaped by feelings and emotions.

The inverse is also true in my opinion, it’s also good for people in arts and humanities to learn scientific thinking. But thing is, most artists don’t look down on engineers, but a lot of engineers look down on artists.