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I’ll sum up your argument:</p>
<p>pmvd: Math majors can’t get any good jobs, they make low amounts of money. I’m a math major, I’m screwed!</p>
<p>Everyone else: No. <strong>insert mountain of evidence</strong></p>
<p>pmvd: No, that evidence is flawed for reasons I won’t explain! I’ll continue making flawed arguments to try to convince people of my point!
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<p>You misunderstand. I believe that math majors can get a lot of good jobs, provided that they are really good at math.</p>
<p>A lot of people on this forum seem to believe that the average math major has what it takes to get the jobs that, in actuality, only gifted math majors can get. They are wrong.</p>
<p>Another fallacy here is that my question is “what can a person do with ONLY a math degree?” And these guys, instead of answering that question, answer the question “what jobs won’t I be prevented from doing with a math degree?”</p>
<p>When I ask what can I do with ONLY a degree math, I mean exactly that. If a job requires a graduate degree or additional skills or college courses in a non-math subject, then it can’t be done with ONLY a math degree.</p>
<p>The stereotype that the only relevant job the average person can do with only a math degree is teach math clearly came from somewhere.</p>
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<p>I understand their arguments very well. I think the problem is that you don’t understand mine.</p>