A page he made on Facebook page on December 1, 2013:
"You can tell if a discipline is BS if the degree depends severely on the prestige of the school granting it. I remember when I applied to MBA programs being told that anything outside the top 10 or 20 would be a waste of time. On the other hand a degree in mathematics is much less dependent on the shool (conditional on being above a certain level, so the heuristic would apply to the differene betwewn top 10 and top 2000 schools)."
Just another reminder of what separates STEM degrees from social science/humanities degrees - the former has inherent value from the type of knowledge that is contained within it while the worth of the latter is heavily based on appealing to the right authorities and gatekeepers of knowledge.
"You can tell if a discipline is BS if the degree depends severely on the prestige of the school granting it. I remember when I applied to MBA programs being told that anything outside the top 10 or 20 would be a waste of time. On the other hand a degree in mathematics is much less dependent on the shool (conditional on being above a certain level, so the heuristic would apply to the differene betwewn top 10 and top 2000 schools)."
Just another reminder of what separates STEM degrees from social science/humanities degrees - the former has inherent value from the type of knowledge that is contained within it while the worth of the latter is heavily based on appealing to the right authorities and gatekeepers of knowledge.