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[Not the Onion] The couple who want to make America...
(hexbear.net)
For what it's worth - the Washington Post put the article in the style section.
this is the end result of devaluation of the humanities. Dunning-Kruger is overused on the internet but freaks like this are just a massive, massive, glaring example of it
True. Just the idea "well I know calculus/Java/physics like the back of my hand so I'm clearly an Uber level intellect."
Accepting you might be good at one thing and not another is surprisingly difficult
Even between the life sciences and trades. I just finished a BS in biology as a mature student and a close friend is doing his in computer science part time, and the difference in what we have to do... So much of his assessed work can be entirely unsourced because it's literally just coding. He's a clever guy and was given an award for placing in the top 100 students institution-wide last year (~40k students), but I do wonder how many of the other 99 were in similar courses!
Oh, absolutely. He sees it himself. Fortunately (a) in Australia it's partly subsidised and the loans are only indexed against inflation, and (b) he's obviously enjoying it. Plus the few units that actually belong in a university are really interesting (but not as you say enough to justify the course being at a uni).
This is literally the mirror-image of the STEMlord anti-humanities arguments, and it's a silly argument in either direction. Both STEM and the humanities are academically rigorous and contribute great value to a student's education--that's why the best schools have so many gen-ed requirements.
STEM and the humanities would do much better uniting against their common foes in academia: administrators and athletics.