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Just a snek on the internet | Call me Doppler (or just Snek) | He/they | Forever in love with my Cuddlefish 🖤🩶🤍💜

  • First off, congrats on only reading/responding to the first few sentences of my response, and cherry-picking the least important part to elaborate on.

    Second, I will reiterate that this is a completely disingenuous comparison using a chart which has no discernibly legitimate or verifiable source. There are not only 12 majors in the world, so your assertion that "computer scientists are on average the least literate, least well read college graduates by quite a margin" is a misrepresentation of the data, as you should well know.

    Third, the majors and specific comparisons made in this chart seem hand-picked to shed Computer Science in a bad light, as every single major it is compared against is necessarily communications-oriented, and the categories of comparison are not representative of the full range of reading and writing skills you claim them to be. Feel free to disprove this, by providing an actual source for your claims other than a grainy chart that doesn't actually back them. Otherwise, quit with the weird superiority complex, especially as someone who is supposedly responsible for educating these "idiots".

    Edit: What on earth does political affiliation have to do with any of this? Conservative my ass, I'm a democratic socialist and leaning anarchist the longer I reflect on it.

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    In all seriousness, there should be a control for liberal arts education. Computer Science is a specialized and rigorous field. If it's taught as the sole subject of a person's education, of course they are going to miss a lot compared to a degree in the arts. Meanwhile, as a computer science student at a liberal arts college, I'd wager I can communicate just fine.

    Further, this chart feels disingenuous here due to your use of it to seemingly attempt justifying a cause-effect relationship where only correlation exists. Of course Computer Science students perform poorly in reading and writing compared to Philosophy and English majors. People who like reading and writing gravitate towards those majors, so they naturally will have a higher population of good communicators. The real issue is the failure of primary education in its attempt to train the general populace to read and write with any reasonable level of proficiency.

    Also, since when are reading and writing the test of a person's cognitive function? Some of the most genuinely intelligent people I know couldn't write a good analytical essay if their life depended on it. Everyone has different strengths; for Computer Scientists, those just happen to be mathematics and deterministic logic instead of interpersonal communication. I don't get where the hate is coming from.

    P.S. I'd read the study but the image is too low-res to make out the URL

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  • Probably because a good chunk of "computer scientists" are actually engineers. I say this as a computer scientist in the engineering college of my school

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  • Lemmy.ml is a server that primarily hosts "tankies", a.k.a. authoritarian communists. You know those Americans who blindly praise the U.S. and act like it can do no wrong, but treat Russia and China like the spawn of satan? Imagine that but reversed and you have lemmy.ml.

    It's not even the political ideology that's problematic (I would never recommend blocking someone solely over conflicting beliefs), it's the authoritarian extremism and blind worship of dictatorial states. The whole server is a propaganda machine and gives the vibe of X/Twitter if it were left wing instead of right.

  • The very worst offender is Nissan. The Japanese car manufacturer admits in their privacy policy to collecting a wide range of information, including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data — but doesn’t specify how. They say they can share and sell consumers’ “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to data brokers, law enforcement, and other third parties.

    What the actual fuck

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