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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everybody has an anecdote, [b]but you can only go based on the averages. [/b]

I would hazard nearly all the folks suggesting you pursue liberal arts have a certain caliber of school in mind.  I doubt even you would suggest studying English at Frostburg State.

So, I don't know the cut-off...but I think it's only a select group of schools that any PP really believes you should pursue a liberal arts degree with zero expectation of graduate school.

As far as I know, there are zero liberal arts majors actually founding the AI companies that everyone discusses above.  Go look at the Bios of OpenAI, Anthropic and others.  The vast majority of the staffs have STEM/Math/Physics backgrounds.

For that matter, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Sergei, Larry Page...none have liberal arts backgrounds.

That doesn't mean they don't value great communicators and critical thinkers.  Perhaps the ideal graduate has a dual CS/Liberal Arts degree.[/quote]

A liberal arts major would know to inform you that you cannot, in fact, go by the "averages" since averages are skewed.

If you, me, and Sally Lee are in a room with Jeff Bezos, we have an average income in the billions. But one of us is not like the others.[/quote]

This is a silly argument.  Ok, you have to go by a statistically significant average or look at statistically significant median incomes.

Didn't think I had to make that clear, but I guess I do.[/quote]

Now you are moving the goalposts. You clearly lack the critical thinking skills that are taught in the liberal arts.

You need to choose a central tendency. You said "averages." I agree median is a better measure. However, you're treating them as they're interchangeable. Which they're usually not. As my Bezos example gives. Sometimes, it might even be appropriate to use the mode to measure, you know? [/quote]

I guess you think it's moving the goalposts when you give your silly little example of four people and an average, when of course we are talking about medians and averages across thousands of kids.  Again, didn't think I had to make that clear...but for you, I guess I do.

I gather you agree with the main assertion...we are talking about liberal arts degrees from a select group of schools only.
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