How do you objectively compare the societal benefit of a mathematician versus a historian so that you can mete their funding accordingly? From the article:The

How do you objectively compare the societal benefit of a mathematician versus a historian so that you can mete their funding accordingly? From the article:The government will soon start evaluating college majors by their employment rates, downsizing or cutting those studies in which less than 60% of graduates fail for two consecutive years to find work. Setting aside the question of whether that is a particularly good method, I'd like to suggest that it's at least more objective and quantifiable than just presuming that a degree in any given subject is equally the cause of or prerequisite to greatness in a given field, and therefore of equal value. Great art doesn't depend on art degrees to the same extent that great science depends on science degrees.