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