"Mike Spencer" wrote in message
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What shocked me about the OP's quiz was that only 31% or college
grads
got the atmosphere composition right. Then I relfected on all the
grads I know who took the absolute minimum number of science credits
required for their degrees in economics or English or education.
But
it's still a pathetic number.

--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

In my college days the liberal arts majors used Astronomy for the easy
passing grade.

Then again, I took Theatre to satisfy the Humanities requirement
because the prof never assigned written homework (to actors and
dancers???) and accepted any lame BS we came up with ("artistic
freedom") when called on in class. Theatre is about how misfits abuse
those they envy which you should know from kindergarten, or the
political rants here.

There was also the eye candy factor.

For scheduling reasons I took Statistics in the Liberal Arts
department. That was another no-study passing grade for the
math-impaired, but I was too far along when I realized it wasn't going
to be very useful. And the explanations of the many ways to rig a
"random" survey were interesting. One was to call homes during working
hours, which overly weights the responses with the retired and
unemployed.

It's quite disconcerting to pollsters that I can mentally calculate
the error margin for their sample size while talking to them, even
more so if they know it's the reciprocal of a square root.

There was an order of magnitude's difference between the intellectual
demands in the Engineering and Liberal Arts curricula. A science
degree proved that you could comprehend and extend what you'd learned,
a liberal arts one that you could memorize.

jsw