I'm not sure I agree with the article's main warrant for its core argument (i.e., the "but they're wrong" part): > But there’s an extremely important caveat: S

I'm not sure I agree with the article's main warrant for its core argument (i.e., the "but they're wrong" part): > But there’s an extremely important caveat: Students aren’t fleeing degrees with poor job prospects. They’re fleeing humanities and related fields specifically because they think they have poor job prospects. If the whole story were a market response to student debt and the Great Recession, students would have read the 2011 census report numbering psychology and communications among the fields with the lowest median earnings and fled from them. IME Psychology and Communications attract students who are looking for an easy degree. Humanities majors are typically more rigorous than the Psych or Comm majors. Psych/Comm attracts a lot of students who hate reading/writing and math equally. > Or they would have noticed that biology majors make less than the average college graduate, and favored the physical sciences. Again, IME, most of those bio majors are planning on med school, nursing, grad school, or teaching.