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#1 flows from the strange rationalization that regardless of anything else in life, studying humanities for four years in college turns one into a great abstrac
by junkscience2017 9y ago
#1 flows from the strange rationalization that regardless of anything else in life, studying humanities for four years in college turns one into a great abstract thinker....while studying engineering for four years permanently transforms you into a robot
amazing that people still believe that an undergrad education either turns you into Napoleon or R2D2
- greenhouse_gas 9y agoAnd that an engineer can't be interested in humanities - there are plenty of engineers who have hobbies outside engineering.
- sidlls 9y agoHow odd. There is a meme in engineering circles that people who don't study math or science are somehow less able to think and reason. I wasn't aware of the sort of inverse you posit. My personal experience on this is extremely lopsided: it's rare for me to encounter a non-techie who doesn't fawn embarrassingly at me when I tell them what my academic background is (physics) or gush over how smart and good at math I must be, etc., while on the other hand I hear from engineer peers all the time about how non-techies are dumb, incompetent, play politics, etc.
- junkscience2017 9y agonowhere did I claim that only engineers were numerate, logical or analytical
- barrkel 9y agoThe bias is rather that engineering makes you great at building things, but humanities is required to know what to build. It's just as suspect to me as it probably is to you. Humanities is just as susceptible to building castles in the air as software engineering, flights of intellectual fantasy about how the world ought to be. Difference is, when humanities makes a mistake, you get fascism or communism, rather than crashing code or broken bridges.