First off, congrats on only reading/responding to the first few sentences of my response, and cherry-picking the least important part to elaborate on.
Second, I will reiterate that this is a completely disingenuous comparison using a chart which has no discernibly legitimate or verifiable source. There are not only 12 majors in the world, so your assertion that “computer scientists are on average the least literate, least well read college graduates by quite a margin” is a misrepresentation of the data, as you should well know.
Third, the majors and specific comparisons made in this chart seem hand-picked to shed Computer Science in a bad light, as every single major it is compared against is necessarily communications-oriented, and the categories of comparison are not representative of the full range of reading and writing skills you claim them to be. Feel free to disprove this, by providing an actual source for your claims other than a grainy chart that doesn’t actually back them. Otherwise, quit with the weird superiority complex, especially as someone who is supposedly responsible for educating these “idiots”.
Edit: What on earth does political affiliation have to do with any of this? Conservative my ass, I’m a democratic socialist and leaning anarchist the longer I reflect on it.
Second, I will reiterate that this is a completely disingenuous comparison using a chart which has no discernibly legitimate or verifiable source.
It’s extremely easy to check GRE performance by major. It’s not a secret.
By the way, the illiteracy of CS majors is such a well known problem in academia, did you know many universities don’t even require GRE verbal from CS students anymore?
Again, for emphasis, computer scientists are on average the least literate, least well read college graduates by quite a margin.
This is an empirical fact.
Interestingly, your first instinct is to deny reality, an attitude that’s totally alien to me, but then again I’m not a conservative.
First off, congrats on only reading/responding to the first few sentences of my response, and cherry-picking the least important part to elaborate on.
Second, I will reiterate that this is a completely disingenuous comparison using a chart which has no discernibly legitimate or verifiable source. There are not only 12 majors in the world, so your assertion that “computer scientists are on average the least literate, least well read college graduates by quite a margin” is a misrepresentation of the data, as you should well know.
Third, the majors and specific comparisons made in this chart seem hand-picked to shed Computer Science in a bad light, as every single major it is compared against is necessarily communications-oriented, and the categories of comparison are not representative of the full range of reading and writing skills you claim them to be. Feel free to disprove this, by providing an actual source for your claims other than a grainy chart that doesn’t actually back them. Otherwise, quit with the weird superiority complex, especially as someone who is supposedly responsible for educating these “idiots”.
Edit: What on earth does political affiliation have to do with any of this? Conservative my ass, I’m a democratic socialist and leaning anarchist the longer I reflect on it.
It’s extremely easy to check GRE performance by major. It’s not a secret.
By the way, the illiteracy of CS majors is such a well known problem in academia, did you know many universities don’t even require GRE verbal from CS students anymore?
So be it. I don’t know why I’m even debating this in the first place, I have better uses for my time. Have a nice day
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