<p>French majors tend to know French and English better than everyone else, as one would expect. Bright quantitative thinkers going to university in America are generally well versed in English, the common language. Philosophy majors are not necessarily as mathematically literate since high level math skills are not required, and math is not common language for those attending U.S. universities. </p>
<p>Are you seriously asserting that there is no other metric for measuring a successful life other than money? How about the life of helping others that provides sufficiently for one’s family? How about the life of ideas that often leads professors to middle class to upper middle class existences? At least you have clearly identified the danger of quantitative thinking divorced from qualitative thinking - calculate the odds and morality be damned seems a grim way to proceed through life.</p>