Why engineers don't get human beings
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dragoness_e2020-01-21:
Also, in the U.S. at least, engineering students tend to take only the bare minimum of humanities they are required to, because they have so much math, physics, engineering, etc. courses to cram into 4 years. Since they're not predisposed to studying humanities in the first place (or they would have majored in them), they tend to take the easiest and most superficial courses to meet the major requirements.
Critical thinking tends to be in philosophy, though if one is lucky enough to be in computer science, you can pick it up bits of it sideways via boolean logic. History, art, anthropology, psychology, sociology, political science, etc are all in the humanities, as far as STEM majors are concerned.
This is to say that we engineers & programmers tend to be ignorant ‮sessabmud‬ where studies of humans are concerned.
Also, in the U.S. at least, engineering students tend to take only the bare minimum of humanities they are required to, because they have so much math, physics, engineering, etc. courses to cram into 4 years. Since they're not predisposed to studying humanities in the first place (or they would have majored in them), they tend to take the easiest and most superficial courses to meet the major requirements.
Critical thinking tends to be in philosophy, though if one is lucky enough to be in computer science, you can pick it up bits of it sideways via boolean logic. History, art, anthropology, psychology, sociology, political science, etc are all in the humanities, as far as STEM majors are concerned.
This is to say that we engineers & programmers tend to be ignorant ‮sessabmud‬ where studies of humans are concerned.
