Do the humanities need a rebrand?

[Cypress]

apparently you cannot.

I'm fine with my understanding.

You're the one who claimed there is a profusion of "useless" degrees out there, but you cannot define precisely what they are

 

[Jerry Mathers]

You're the one who claimed there is a profusion of "useless" degrees out there, but you cannot define precisely what they are

nor can you refute they exist.

 

[Cypress]

nor can you refute they exist.

How can I refute something you haven't defined?

 

[Jerry Mathers]

How can I refute something you haven't defined?

its not up to me to teach you what words mean.

perhaps you should not engage if you don't know words.

we will be waiting for your proof there are no useless degrees..


you can get your ignorance handled or not......

 

[Cypress]

No one is forced to take art history.

I really liked my art history, music appreciation, and Chinese history classes.

 

[Cypress]

its not up to me to teach you what words mean!!

So you can't tell me what these useless degrees are or explain why they are useless.

 

[Jerry Mathers]

I really liked my art history, music appreciation, and Chinese history classes.

cool story, Eugene.

 

[Jerry Mathers]

So you can't tell me what these useless degrees are or explain why they are useless.

and you cannot dispute their existence.

 

[Jerry Mathers]

how can he dispute their existence if he doesn't know what they are?

typical dumbest shit ever.

 

[Cypress]

how can he dispute their existence if he doesn't know what they are?

typical dumbest shit ever.

If there are a profusion of useless degrees out there you should be able to easily identify them and explain exactly why they're useless.

 

[Into the Night]

Skilled blue collar labor can earn really good money.

The problem is, you can generally only do it if you are healthy and relatively young.

True in any job, Cyborg.

A plumber who gets a chronic back injury at age 40 is going to have his career seriously curtailed.

...or own a plumbing company.

And I don't see a lot of 60 year old HVAC guys.

They usually own the company and/or are retiring.

How often are you hiring HVAC guys? Is your furnace that bad?

 

[Into the Night]

But overall, college graduates earn more. All statistics on this prove it.

Statistical math is not a proof, Hugo.
Your theory has already been falsified.

 

[Into the Night]

So-?

Poor old Cyborg doesn't realize that fracking is thousands of years old.
It has been used to develop water wells long before developing oil wells. It has also been used in wartime to bust up bunkers.

 

[Into the Night]

Yes, on average they do.

Math error. Failure to declare dataset. Failure to calculate margin of error value. Attempted proof by randU.

 

[Into the Night]

My buddy from high school got a degree in French and had a successful career in international commerce and as president of the visitor and convention bureau of a major city in Florida.

I literally know zero people who received humanities degrees and then got stuck in careers at Starbucks or Wal-Mart.

Attempted proof by anecdote. Argument from ignorance fallacy.

 

[Jerry Mathers]

If there are a profusion of useless degrees out there you should be able to easily identify them and explain exactly why they're useless.

you should be able to say there are few useless degrees if that's what you believe.

 

[Into the Night]

You must have really low standards for yourself if you think drilling for oil or working at the convention bureau are "elitist"

You never drilled for oil, Cyborg. You never worked at a convention bureau either.
Oil well drillers, work hard. You couldn't do it. It's dangerous. You couldn't do it.
A convention bureau requires handling large numbers of conventions and the people that coordinate them and those that attend them. You couldn't do it.

Neither of these jobs is elite, but they require skill to accomplish successfully. Skills you don't have.

 

[Matt Dillon]

You never drilled for oil, Cyborg. You never worked at a convention bureau either.
Oil well drillers, work hard. You couldn't do it. It's dangerous. You couldn't do it.
A convention bureau requires handling large numbers of conventions and the people that coordinate them and those that attend them. You couldn't do it.

Neither of these jobs is elite, but they require skill to accomplish successfully. Skills you don't have.

Pretty sure what he's saying he did isn't that dangerous. It's more like surveying and testing places.
Ground-penetrating radar, samples for analysis, stuff like that.
He ain't no Wildcatter. It's something someone with a degree in chemical engineering would be suited for.

 

[Hume]

Amazing the hostility to the humanities in universities. Why the complaint?

 

[Into the Night]

Define "useless degree"

The so-called 'liberal arts degree' at many universities.
The 'programming degree' at many colleges and universities.
The so-called 'journalism degree' at many colleges and universities.
The 'science degree'.
The 'envirommental <anything>' degree.