The Cocktail Party Guide to College Majors
A two-axis chart placing college majors by how impressive they sound and whether they start or end a cocktail-party conversation; math is impressive but a conversation ender.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-04-23-the-cocktail-party-guide-to-college-majors/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[A 2-axis chart: Conversation Starter ↔ Conversation Ender; Unimpressive ↔ Impressive] Psychology (starter, unimpressive) · Astronomy (starter, impressive) · Anthropology and Philosophy (middle) · Physics (impressive) · Finance (ender, unimpressive) · Math (ender, impressive)