epr19

Here's my hot take: Math, cs, engineering, etc is about the technicalities, while the humanities/"softer" social sciences is about the big picture/point of it all.

Discussions like these inevitably devolve into "STEM is better than the humanities, humanities is better than STEM". Both have worth in their own ways, so that's a silly debate. The biggest proof for the above is that in STEM, people get more specialized the more experience they have (a specific proof in number theory, for example), while in the humanities, people grapple with bigger and bigger questions through their chosen medium (using the topic of feminism in America to comment on the ways we all grapple with identity, for example).

Does that sound right or is this dichotomy trivial and nonexistent?