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Perhaps that's true in your experience, but 'STEM' also includes jobs as varied as 'actuary', 'geographer', 'dental hygienist', 'soil technician', 'physical the
by gojomo 11y ago
Perhaps that's true in your experience, but 'STEM' also includes jobs as varied as 'actuary', 'geographer', 'dental hygienist', 'soil technician', 'physical therapist', and 'anthropologist'.
- dalke 11y agoI'll add 'string theorist', 'paleobotanist', 'exoplanetologist', 'dendrochronologist', and 'parapsychologist'. When politicians (or most people, for that matter) talk about needing more people in STEM, they don't usually mean to increase funding for these fields. Rather, "STEM" is short-hand for "the sorts of people who solve problems that are useful for industry, business, and health."