This was intentional by the Department Of Labor in order to drive down the cost of people who are skilled in mathematical and scientific concepts, because most people are fucking afraid of fractions.
Firstly, the financial industry gets cheaper analytical minds. Second, the government believes it is necessary to keep a pile of already trained STEM grads available in the event of a high-kinetic war that would require use of advanced weapons or new engineering efforts.
There is a "lack" is extremely intelligent researchers, but most of that is because the higher education system is so foundationally broken, that there's no mechanism of identifying or training people to the standards that industries are looking for in research. Then there's the garbage that research is putting out, and the replication crisis on top of that, and the peer-review system being broken on top of that.
We've never been more over-educated, and less intellectually capable, but foreigners aren't going to fix that either.
I think it was about 15 years ago that someone leaked the code used by a prominent climate researcher at an institution called “CRU” - the code was atrocious and included hardcoded temperature adjustments.
Nice post. Agreed. Good insight about the STEM + Defense link. I feel that's also what these tariffs and fixes to the "supply-chain" are ultimate about also. Ensuring the USA is better capable in a war.
This was intentional by the Department Of Labor in order to drive down the cost of people who are skilled in mathematical and scientific concepts, because most people are fucking afraid of fractions.
Firstly, the financial industry gets cheaper analytical minds. Second, the government believes it is necessary to keep a pile of already trained STEM grads available in the event of a high-kinetic war that would require use of advanced weapons or new engineering efforts.
There is a "lack" is extremely intelligent researchers, but most of that is because the higher education system is so foundationally broken, that there's no mechanism of identifying or training people to the standards that industries are looking for in research. Then there's the garbage that research is putting out, and the replication crisis on top of that, and the peer-review system being broken on top of that.
We've never been more over-educated, and less intellectually capable, but foreigners aren't going to fix that either.
I think it was about 15 years ago that someone leaked the code used by a prominent climate researcher at an institution called “CRU” - the code was atrocious and included hardcoded temperature adjustments.
So yeah, it’s bad.
This tracks for scientists. They are notoriously bad at writing code as compared to anyone with a lick of formal training.
Nice post. Agreed. Good insight about the STEM + Defense link. I feel that's also what these tariffs and fixes to the "supply-chain" are ultimate about also. Ensuring the USA is better capable in a war.
Yeah, that's one of the primary factions within the administration.
Weirdly enough, it's a good way to get the military-industrial complex on our side.