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Anonymous01/16/26, 10:52No.16892942Are STEM students smarter than humanities?
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Anon01/16/26, 10:53No.16892944
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Anon01/16/26, 11:13No.16892955
i don't think it's really a 'smarter than' thing, both classes of subjects have fundamentally different structures and rules, and people are gonna be tuned more at some rather than others, though there is no reason (really) that one can't be good at both.
i reckon math and structural thinking are probably harder to compensate for than English/history. my brain is a bit autistic, i only think in words or symbols when necessary, and the areas i am the worst at are textual facts (in other words, i am SHIT at subjects like history). they simply do not really record in my mind at all, and to the extent that they do it is because the facts have some kind of structural logic. otoh, i've spent most of my professional life as a freelance writer, and write things okay enough. proofwriting is much more fun, though, and i suspect if i decided to waste time in college after high school, it would have been learning mathematics (or paleoanthropology). also all sociologists are faggots
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Anon01/16/26, 11:22No.16892958
It doesn't really work like that. There is only general intelligence. If you excelled at anything in school, you probably have good enough general intelligence to learn anything. I was top of my class in English in high school, but transitioned into STEM later. It really comes down to interest and learning new ways of thinking, which people with low general intelligence cannot do so well.
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Anon01/16/26, 11:45No.16892967
stem attracts intelligence, intelligent people like making things not writing bullshit essays or blogposts
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Anon01/16/26, 13:40No.16892999
Actually if you ask an engineer-brained STEM autist to engage with a book's themes at a college level they completely fail and just become dismissive and pretend literature is beneath their intelligence as a way of coping.
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Anon01/16/26, 22:53No.16893290
Why does the word hate need to be censored now?
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Anon01/16/26, 23:27No.16893305
Podiatry is STEM.
Philosophy is not.
If that doesn't answer your question you're probably a podiatrist.
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Anon01/16/26, 23:53No.16893312
"A math student who speaks english can pick up a english book and read it, understand it"
The math student in question:
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Anon01/17/26, 00:02No.16893317
Most "STEM" people are engineers, nurses, and codemonkeys, and plenty of them are retarded, so probably not
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Anon01/17/26, 11:53No.16893554
>Are STEM students smarter than humanities?
I actually used to think STEM = smart, but in the recent decade or so, I think stem students, but really most of the students are lacking basic coherent reading abilities. Inability to read the whole sentences, inability to take in cues, inability to compress ideas and expand ideas, inability to extrapolate beyond the initial idea within the set context, inability to understand the contextual limits, etc.Humanities, or at very least, philosophy department or the other more rigorous subjects like linguistics might help many people understand the limits of thought properly. I attribute the decline of coherent/testable science to declining standards partially to this.
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Anon01/17/26, 12:09No.16893561
There are productive sciences and there's occupational therapy for upper-middle-class retards
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Anon01/17/26, 17:38No.16893722
The average maths/physics student is probably smarter than the average history/english student just because it's more rigorous and objective.You can get away with a lot with the latter and the professors probably get 1000 grading petitions and complaints a semester because their students are whiny retards that can afford to get a meme degree because they always have their parents as backup.I don't doubt that there's incredibly smart outliers in either profession tho however one of then is much more likely to end up teaching in an elementary scool and arguably nothing exciting in life due to the profession and their wage.
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Anon01/17/26, 21:13No.16893849
No, nobody with any intellect would pursue a career in STEM
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Anon01/18/26, 05:49No.16894042
Maybe at raw IQ level, but you really come off as a retard/uncultured if all you can really talk about in depth is STEM. I guess know something past surface level that isn't STEM.
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Anon01/18/26, 06:14No.16894046
This doesn't deserve a thread.
A simple search "average iq by major" will give you the answer you're looking for.
Or not, since you're just here to troll.
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Anon01/18/26, 13:18No.16894139
Of course STEM is smarter than humanities. This is because humanities are an inherently political field. There's no empirical way to determine which answer is right, so the only way of gaining prominence in the humanities is by having political influence. That's why they only produce cunning politicians instead of smart scientists.
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Anon01/18/26, 13:48No.16894155
posting in a trash thread
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Anon01/18/26, 21:27No.16894326
I've spent my life mingling with people of all backgrounds. One thing I've learned the hard way is that pure mathematicians are the only people on Earth who deserve the adjective 'smart'.
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Anon01/18/26, 23:04No.16894394
Can't speak to how things are now but when I was at university, there were people in most majors who were highly intelligent. The big difference was the bottom dwellers. They couldn't make it in STEM majors. Same for the "smart but lazy" types. Smart and ambitious can do well in theater or engineering. Middling or lazy can sleepwalk through theater but quickly fail out of engineering.
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Anon01/19/26, 05:46No.16894539
>16894536
Giving India access to the internet was a mistake.
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Anon01/19/26, 05:55No.16894542
>16894539
Your dishonesty has been thoroughly exposed.
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Anon01/19/26, 05:55No.16894543
Does anybody seriously think humanities majors are on average smarter than STEM students?
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Anon01/19/26, 12:13No.16894701
Eh, ye olde English literature can be a cunt to read.
But I'm willing to bet that any university math student with basic googling stills can figure out what tf the author was trying to say within a month or two, assuming he's willing to dedicate himself to it.
By comparison the literature specialist might never be able to understand complex formulas cause it's just too much for his puny brain. Most people are simply incapable of learning university level math, physics or programming.
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Anon01/19/26, 17:47No.16894845
Whenever I debated about politics with stem students (mostly coders), their opinions were utterly retarded.
But imo their retarded opinions were mainly a result of arrogance, not stupidity. >I'm a compsci major and I make lots of money, that means I'm superior and good at everything.
>My opinions on economics are objectively true because I'm superior, even though I don't actually know anything about economics
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Anon01/19/26, 18:55No.16894866
Comp sci degree via an apprenticeship.Did all the flooring, wiring and joinery work in my house while also working from home.Can take a manual and learn how to do most skills quite fast.Met alot of humanities fags that end up as process people or HR.I'd be far more effective doing their job as they would mine.People who do humanities are just wastes of space.Who the fuck cares about your book long master about the Lesbian identities at borders of Peru.Humanities people also carry a fuck ton of student debt they can't pay back that becomes a burden when you marry them.
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Anon01/21/26, 00:15No.16895795
Not in money and status, I end up wagie stock owner
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Anon01/21/26, 01:50No.16895817
Verbal intelligence is the intelligence type that's most highly correlated with general intelligence. And you can tell whomever put this image together has never taken a course in which they've been asked to critically analyze something like Heidegger. Dartmouth offers an English course on Being and Time -- take it and let us knows how it goes.
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Anon01/21/26, 03:04No.16895858
Genuinely I think no they aren't at all
They have a specific type of logical brain and personality but not necessarily higher general intelligence
Basically I think it's easier to teach a philosophy student CS than it would be to teach a CS student philosophy
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Anon01/21/26, 05:13No.16895902
Absolutely baffling that this board is now saying that STEM students aren't on average smarter than Humanities majors. The fact that STEM majors consist of a greater share of males than females than the rate of Humanities should be a massive sign of this.
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Anon01/21/26, 09:18No.16895954
Yes. STEM jobs make more money, so everyone wants a STEM degree. The standards are higher and the work is harder. Those who can't make the cut get humanities or business degrees. Yes, there are a few people that choose to pursue humanities without regard for the lower paying job prospects, but they are the exceptions and not the rule.
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Anon01/24/26, 12:31No.16898073
hell nope. anyone who ignores the Source of it all cannot reason
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Anon01/24/26, 13:11No.16898103
A competent History researcher is definitely smarter than me. Fuck English niggas though, they deserve 0 respect
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Anon01/24/26, 16:28No.16898207
>Are STEM students smarter than humanities?
Yes. STEM students are also smarter than STEM.
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Anon01/26/26, 08:49No.16899507
Not really. The term "student" has a loaded connotation. Evaluating the average admitted undergraduate doesn't bear well on the actual difficulty of either field.Most of the technical desiderata in engineering/biology/physics is actually pretty easy to understand, and it's usually just bad pedagogy that makes it "hard" to grok; e.g. students not being taught that integrals are areas, derivatives are slopes, matrices area transformations on space, etc... If a person could read Pynchon or Joyce then they wouldn't have any serious issues understanding the mathematics that an engineering student works with. It's true that STEM fields move up levels of abstraction away from concrete objects, but high literature often does the same—in its own way.At a professional level: writing well is highly challenging, and writing entire novels is a very difficult task that requires more life experience than most technical fields—there's a reason the average age of a first novel is much higher than when most STEM researchers write their first paper. You could try to compare Witten to McCarthy or whatever, but that's just petty and misses the point.The actual IQ of undergrads in Liberal Arts might be lower than that of Engineers, but the corrupt whoring out of the academy doesn't have any bearing on which field is smarter; engineering is also being drug down into a gutter of Chindians and at some point probably Nigerians—all in service of money. There might even be hellhole towns in Canada or India where certain engineering/compsci programs have lower average IQs than, say, philosophy majors, as those locusts tend to go after "money" fields.
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Anon01/27/26, 03:28No.16899953
On average, yes because they were smart enough to figure out that a stem degree has a higher earnings potential than a humanities degree. Simple self-sorting.