@yogthos OK, I found some info here. All of my assumptions...

@yogthos OK, I found some info here. All of my assumptions were totally wrong. Humanities increased in the 60s (despite the Sputnik stuff) and then dropped off, had another peak in around the 90s, and plummeted in the last decade.

https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2018/07/mea-culpa-there-is-crisis-in-humanities.html

(I found the study from a mention in this article: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/why-stem-students-need-humanities-courses/)

Like 1 Mar 2023 at 17:10 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

2 comments

Yogthos

@richard_merren I'm guessing that the main factor is whether people see humanities as a viable career, in the current austerity climate people are driven towards choosing careers that are utilitarian

1 Mar 2023 at 17:14 | Open on mas.to

Richard

@yogthos But we weren't in austerity all of the last decade, when it has been dropping.

1 Mar 2023 at 17:20 | Open on mastodon.social