Are people studying reality a part of it?

My friends and I always learn something or another from Kinga. We feel that she is so interesting and since she is older and hence much more mature, we can take away something from our conversations from her rather than just complaining to each other about something. One day while working on our group four project, Kinga told us how she loves Literature and Art but despises Math and Sciences, a familiar feeling to quite a few of us sitting with her. She then said something that I thought was truly interesting which was that people spend so much time picking reality apart to the extent where they are not even in it anymore. The way she said it was articulated differently but I believe what she meant to say was, was that sometimes people study things that may not be of utmost pragmatism to us, or they scrutinize it to the point where they are not a part of their social realities but in a world where they are blindly looking for answers and not pausing to see what is actually around them. She sarcastically gave an example of a table while knocking on it, "oooh a table, how close are the molecules? is it a solid? why is it huh?" and said that these people tend to be the most awkward because they cannot appreciate the beauty of things around them as they feel the need to examine it. The table example was a scornful and mocking one but I could understand what she was getting at. I remember when we were studying the IQ and EQ in class and discovered that EQ is also very valuable in getting jobs nowadays because sometimes if the IQ is too high, people are not emotionally capable of handling customers and managing their enthusiasm and things similar to that. I think that in a sense relates to what Kinga said, because if the intelligence quotient is too high and the general tendency to be correct and particular is greater, a person loses their touch with emotions which can be related back to seeing reality, experiencing it and appreciating it. Kinga strongly prefers people who have aesthetic tastes such as in writing and art and she finds that math and science people are actually not pleasant to talk to, not as entertaining and imaginative, and overall just too skeptical and precise. I feel that studying reality is necessary and enlightening but could it be that the more you study it, the more you detach yourself from it? If you study something beyond what needs to be done, it may get devalued. People can lose touch with their social realities as a result of trying to figure out what a certain object is or means. From what she said, she had me convinced, and I think that this could be one way to look at it.