medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Speaker A: To reduce the rising costs of higher education, the government should eliminate funding for humanities and social science programs and redirect it toward STEM fields. STEM degrees lead to higher-paying jobs, which directly benefits the national economy. Speaker B: Narrowly focusing on STEM would be a strategic mistake. Critical thinking and cultural awareness, which are central to the humanities, are what allow innovators to apply scientific knowledge in ways that are socially and economically sustainable.
On the basis of their statements, Speaker A and Speaker B are most likely to disagree about which one of the following?
- Whether the government ought to be involved in directly funding any form of higher education in the first place at all, as a matter of policy.
- Whether graduates holding STEM degrees earn higher average starting salaries than otherwise comparable graduates in the humanities fields.
- Whether STEM disciplines, considered together as a group, contribute more to the overall national economy than the social sciences do.
- Whether the economic payoff of a degree is the sole consideration the government should weigh in deciding how to allocate education funding.
- Whether the humanities programs alone deserve to receive the overwhelming majority of all available public higher-education funding now.
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