Your snarky post reflects a belief that people commenting here are not only dinosaurs, but childless, unemployed ones at that. I'll get to the specifics of how meaningless your stats are in a moment as it relates to STEM. I would suspect most of the people commenting here are in technical disciplines. We may not have been on college campuses recently, but we have children and grandchildren who
are, and we actually work with [or hire people] who -- surprisingly, according to your trenchant analysis -- are recent college graduates.
- For what is a general degree in biology useful?
- How many of those females are Americans?
- What's the percentage in math?
- What's the percentage in physics?
- What's the percentage in Comp Sci -- not ITS, not an associates degree in networking or Computer Engineering, but a real Comp Sci major?
- What's the percentage in real engineering -- not Industrial Engineering or Environmental Engineering, but things like EE, ME?
My post was not intended to be snarky. It was a response to a post implying that STEM classes today, as in yester-year, are avoided by women. Engineering, physics, and math majors are still overwhelmingly male; biology and chemistry majors are not. And females have comprised the majority of vet medicine and pharmacy graduates for more than 20 years. Within ten years, it is projected that a majority of med school grads will be women. You might ask your children and grandchildren the following question: where are all the young men?
A majority of pre-med students are either biology or chemistry majors. I'd say that a biology major is “useful” (although not essential) for the study of medicine, and med schools tend to agree with me.
And I'll ask one of your questions to you: For what is a general degree in physics useful?