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Most cases in my experience is partly because STEM study is divorced from study of Humanities. Wanna know how many STEM students were in my 300s Eng Lit class where we had analysis on Neuromancer and how fucked that all was? ZERO. It was the same people from all my other Humanities courses.
My college required four humanities classes for every degree. Including STEM. Really wish more pushed that.
My college had a special philosophy for Engineering class that counted towards our humanities class that was basically DOD propaganda about how you aren't morally responsible when you make weapons that end up committing war crimes
One of my humanities classes was a study on successful rebellions and how they overthrow governments through united effort. Much happier with mine, lol
Yeah, I think it's largely the result of the consensus view in STEM becoming "the humanities are worthless"
Of course then the diphsits, having refused to learn any history, have no clue that it wasn't always this way and many (most?) of the great STEM figures of the past were polymaths with good foundations in the humanities.