<p>@spdf:</p>
<p>Applause from a live audience is about the only way to measure the success of a humanities major, if you find using salary too distasteful. I would measure the success of an engineer on the fact that a bridge he designs is much less likely to collapse than one designed by a humanities major largely ignorant of physics, engineering and probably math. The humanities major might have a slight edge on the engineer in choosing what color to paint the bridge or how to word the signs on the bridge, but many high schoolers could handle those tasks too.</p>