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In my experience programmers don't mock mathematicians and other hard science and engineering specialists. They are seen as more or less peers. They tend to moc
by acangiano 15y ago
In my experience programmers don't mock mathematicians and other hard science and engineering specialists. They are seen as more or less peers. They tend to mock marketers, MBAs, sociology majors, etc.
- redthrowaway 15y ago"Hard" is a relative term, here. Surely physics is hard science. Most would agree with Chemistry. Biology? Well, okay...Psychology? No, now you're just--Sociology? The hell? How did we get here? As far as people I mock--only those who think a liberal arts education will land them a good job with no other qualifications. The world needs historians (even of the art variety), anthropologists, sociologists, and even marketers. What it doesn't particularly need, however, is 70% of the college population pursuing those degrees when maybe 3% of the jobs out there are suited to them.
- btilly 15y agoLet me justify that categorization for you. http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-makes-it-science.html http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-makes-it-science.h...