<p>Since when are humanities degrees teaching reasoning or inter-cultural skills? </p>
<p>The average science major at my college, who interacts with foreign students and foreign faculty on a daily basis, seems to have more intercultural skills than the average humanities major, who might have read 5 Russian novels or studied the Ancient Greek. (About 1/4 of our science majors are international students, but very few of the humanities majors.)</p>
<p>Science majors outperform humanities majors on the LSAT, which is designed to measure critical reading and reasoning skills. Humanities majors are trained to produce 20 pages of fancy-sounding exposition on demand, sometimes with very little substance.</p>