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> You cannot get a STEM degree if you are incapable of thinking logically. I'm not really sure what you're basing this off of. I've worked in prominent univers

> You cannot get a STEM degree if you are incapable of thinking logically. I'm not really sure what you're basing this off of. I've worked in prominent universities teaching math classes and would definitely not make such a claim. > Therefore, it makes sense to connect the two. No it doesn't. What does STEM have to do with running a country anyway? Would you say that McNamara's policies were correct in Vietnam? I'm not sure you could come up with a more "rational" approach to foreign policy anywhere. Personally instead of round about arguments claiming the PRC is rational due to the degrees held by the ruling class, I'd personally just look at the resultant policies. Watching the PRC for a long time, they don't really strike me as very rational at all. Their current handling of covid is only one example.

Kranar 4y ago
>I'm not really sure what you're basing this off of. I've worked in prominent universities teaching math classes and would definitely not make such a claim. I think you're being deliberately obtuse here. Are you genuinely making the claim, based on your experience at prominent universities, that people graduating from STEM fields are incapable of thinking logically? Do you want us to believe that there is no strong relationship between the ability to acquire an undergraduate degree in fields that involve math and science and the capacity to think logically? If that's the case, then so be it, but then I think most people will simply end the conversation at the point since you possibly have a very warped/skewed view of this topic that makes it hard for you to reason about it objectively. >No it doesn't. What does STEM have to do with running a country anyway? No one claimed that the two are connected, all that was claimed is that those in charge of the CCP have engineering backgrounds and hence are very likely to be capable of rational thinking.

Kranar 4y ago

>I'm not really sure what you're basing this off of. I've worked in prominent universities teaching math classes and would definitely not make such a claim. I think you're being deliberately obtuse here. Are you genuinely making the claim, based on your experience at prominent universities, that people graduating from STEM fields are incapable of thinking logically? Do you want us to believe that there is no strong relationship between the ability to acquire an undergraduate degree in fields that involve math and science and the capacity to think logically? If that's the case, then so be it, but then I think most people will simply end the conversation at the point since you possibly have a very warped/skewed view of this topic that makes it hard for you to reason about it objectively. >No it doesn't. What does STEM have to do with running a country anyway? No one claimed that the two are connected, all that was claimed is that those in charge of the CCP have engineering backgrounds and hence are very likely to be capable of rational thinking.