A friend on Facebook said something similar, referencing the campaign for more STEM training. My thoughts:
"I feel like humanties are much less concrete (no pun intended) and require a lot more creativity than practical (as opposed to theoretical) STEM stuff. Even more importantly, an understanding, or lack thereof, of humanities concepts fundamentally shapes the application of STEM skills in ways that quite readily fuck us all over.
A lack of understanding of politics and related humanities concepts and how our perception of the world is shaped by those who have that understanding harms and kills millions of people every day all over the world.
(I want to add that practical STEM endeavors can absolutely *benefit* from creativity, but I do not believe they require it.)"
If people see social sciences as fluff (and I realize a lot of them do), they are completely failing to understand their nature.
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"I feel like humanties are much less concrete (no pun intended) and require a lot more creativity than practical (as opposed to theoretical) STEM stuff. Even more importantly, an understanding, or lack thereof, of humanities concepts fundamentally shapes the application of STEM skills in ways that quite readily fuck us all over.
A lack of understanding of politics and related humanities concepts and how our perception of the world is shaped by those who have that understanding harms and kills millions of people every day all over the world.
(I want to add that practical STEM endeavors can absolutely *benefit* from creativity, but I do not believe they require it.)"
If people see social sciences as fluff (and I realize a lot of them do), they are completely failing to understand their nature.