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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just trying to read my car manual this weekend because I had a question about something and it was gibberish. Clearly, the world needs more English majors who can write clearly. It was just shockingly bad. [/quote]

That is why someone with a STEM background with very strong communication skills and writing skills can go far.  Every company needs a strong marketing team, someone who can write the manuals, etc.  But it's hard for an English only major to be strong  in the products of many companies . Hence by both skill sets are important
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LOL I’m but a lowly English major but I’m pretty sure I could write a car user manual without an extensive background in STEM. Of course I also took advanced math and science classes because I went to a liberal arts college so maybe that qualifies me to explain what the various lights on the dashboard signify.

STEM people always think they can easily master the humanities and that humanities folks can’t do STEM but that’s just arrogance. [/quote]

My guess is the "advanced math and science classes" you claim you took aren't what a STEM person would consider advanced math and sciences.

I don't think people think they can master the humanities, but they are fairly certain that if they take an upper level English course they will understand the language in which the course is taught and will be able to answer the questions.

I was an econ major (which is a liberal arts major) and took some "advanced math" classes and decided to take a relatively low-level advanced math class for STEM kids.  I couldn't even understand what the professor was writing on the board.  It would be the equivalent of taking an English class where I first had to learn 7th century English prior to even attempting to read the texts and answering the questions.

It's inconceivable that any English major would take such a class...if you actually did and did very well, then you would have switched majors or at least pursued a dual-major because you would have to really love the material to do well.[/quote]
“Inconceivable?” Really? I dropped physics for history, because, frankly, 3 courses in quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and QED taught me that physics wasn’t going to magically become interesting to me, no matter how much I tried to lie to myself that it could. Most of my coursework involved applying knowledge from a textbook and once you learn the lingo ([b]or really the principles of linear algebra[/b]), you could easily get at least a B in the class.[/quote]

No math or STEM major would call that an advanced Math class.  Hence the fallacy of the argument.[/quote]
DP but you seem to be the ignorant one. Stanford Quantum Field Theory course is a 330 level class: “300 and above: courses for graduate students” according to Stanford. Quantum mechanics alone is an upper division undergraduate course.[/quote]

Linear Algebra.  Hence what was highlighted.[/quote]
They were explaining that you need to understand linear algebra to get QM. Also linear algebra doesn’t stop at your baby intro you took freshman year. It has upper division and graduate level coursework that is foundational to Machine Learning, Quantum Mechanics, etc. A math major who [b]dismisses linear as non important or easy…isn’t a math major.[/b][/quote]

Truth. Off to brush up on [i]Number Theory 2 [/i]...[/quote]

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