[moi2388]

I’ve studied both STEM and humanities.

The humanities is a lot of nonsense. And any STEM student can read a humanity study and understand it and write a valid critique. The opposite is definitely not the case.

STEM students are just better at modelling than non-STEM (on a whole).

As for programmers. I’ve met several who only work in a specific industry for a few years. They have no problems moving to a new industry and within 6 months they understand the new domain and can model that accurately as well.

I have not once met a marketing or hr guy who was able to model anything, let alone a different domain.

[dambi0]

I assume you meant this is a rebuttal of the parent comment. It's interesting that it could just as well be seen as confirmation.

[rightbyte]

Funnely enough I was nodding to parent post until I read your answer and was abit emberrased. I got a bad case of STEM hubris too. The STM can go home though.

[SR2Z]

How you see it depends on how highly you think of non-STEM work, I guess - but I will say anecdotally that the folks who were good at math/science when I was in school also seemed to be solidly above average at English.

[dambi0]

Couldn’t you just as well say that the people who were above average at English were good at science/math?

[SR2Z]

It didn't seem to go the other way. Lots of folks were passable writers but terrible at the other subjects.