The 3Cs — Conduct multivariate study. Cherrypick favorable dimensions. Cash out.
Intellectually corrupt disciplines are also easy majors. And that combination is dangerous to a university as a whole.
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While there's truth in that, I doubt it would be easy to come up with an objective list of 'intellectually corrupt disciplines'.
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It would be interesting to try. For example, the dropout graph is a related, objective measure. http://paulgraham.com/college.html
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What do you see as "intellectually corrupt" disciplines? What makes them corrupt? That's a loaded passive/aggressive statement...
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Surprise! It's the social sciences. As for literature, "just read it"
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or to society more broadly given even "harder" things like Economics can fall into the bucket of intellectually flawed.
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@peterthiel pointed out in his tribute to Girard, the issue is often with Education generally.https://twitter.com/davealevine/status/844222213008113664 …
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Well, look at the majors of student athletes! All of us happily watch college sports while they're majoring in corrupt disciplines
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we should probably add medicine to that list. Aura of science belies actual use of data/ science
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Are you insulting my degree in Freudian Marxist Media Studies?
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