[tylerkahn]

Someone who majored in liberal arts but is able to themselves to code is likely to be an intelligent and motivated individual. I suspect that more readily explains the successes of these individuals than their liberal arts studies.

It's also my personal observation that someone's college major has no bearing on their ability to think critically.

[potatoyogurt]

Yeah, there's a lot of selection bias with this sort of thing. The average computer science graduate is probably going to go on to become a software engineer or otherwise work in tech in some way. This means that you will meet all of the average CS graduates every day. The average liberal arts major will not go on to be a software engineer. The only liberal arts major software engineers you will meet are the ones who are interested enough in programming to bother learning it and talented enough to become proficient in two mostly unrelated fields.

I do think there's a lot of value in studying non-technical, potentially useless, even esoteric things, but this argument is not extraordinarily convincing.

[ZanyProgrammer]

This. Most people with liberal arts degrees don't have pre-existing knowledge of/interest in all things tech/programming. The people on here who say they have graduate degrees in history, etc aren't even remotely the average LA degree holder. Without a lot of extra studying/bootcamps/programming since you were 12/post bacc certs/second BS degrees in computer science, a plain old average liberal arts degree I'd wager is much, much less valuable than a BS in CS.