Which academic subject is the biggest waste of IQ?

[Anonymous No.21550046]

Theology is a big contender for me.

To think that proving or (disproving) that there's a big man in the sky and discussing the extent of his powers was this big of an issue. The unending speculations and insane mental gymnastics makes it look like a Shonen power scaling debate for unecessarily intelligent people.

[Anonymous No.21550072]

>>21550046
Philosophy. Highest average GRE, highest verbal, just about the highest quantitative (logic programs, a subdiscipline of philosophy have the highest, although it's a bit unfair since only elite programs maintain separate logic degrees).

I'm not talking about humanities philosophy, which is more what you see in intro undergrad courses, which is all most people see. But more the programs that take promising, top of their class even in elite settings mathematicians, theoretical computer scientists, and physicists and turn them into schizos trying to prove that reality can be explained by combining category theoretic approaches to Hegelian dialectical and categorical quantum mechanics/quantum information theory.

Makes you unemployed and schizo.

[Anonymous No.21550080]

>>21550072
They also stick their nose into real science and do shit like try to get everyone to abandon frequentism using reams of paper covered in autism runes and thinking that means anything to anyone else.

[Anonymous No.21550142]

>>21550046
>you must use your intelligence to produce goods or you're wasting it
Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.21550146]

>>21550046
Philosophy and theology are the same thing simply viewed from the different angles if you understand the origins of philosophy. Without a worldview, you don't know where your values come from and where you are going.

Science is after all a branch of natural philosophy.

[Anonymous No.21550177]

>>21550072
Wolfram is the most successful mathematician alive and has a networth of 2-3 billion dollars and has been right about pretty much everything. His theories would be 'schizo' to you because you simply can't follow along and they weren't taught by your YT professor.

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[Just Like That No.21550789]

>>21550046
Any subject that has the word "studies" in its title. When you are still working three jobs in food service five years after graduating, just remember: you were warned.

[Anonymous No.21552243]

>>21550046
>Theology is a big contender for me.
Is theology even taught outside of religious universities? I know state schools have Religious Studies but I thought the curriculum was more about investigating the origins of various religions or something.

[Anonymous No.21553372]

>>21550046
Philosophy.