Playmate College Majors
A fascinating piece of research I think you’ll agree, a study of playmate college majors.
Yes, really. someone’s done it. Gone through the lists of Playboy playmates for the past few decades and, where possible, noted what was their major when they went to college.
You’ll need to click through here for the full results of the playmate college majors survey (yes, it’s OK, safe for work). But there’s something incredibly appropriate about this:
What is amazing is how there is not one, NOT ONE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER OR PRE-MED OR PHYSICS OR OR ACCOUNTING OR ENGINEERING MAJOR (bar Cindy Crawford who spent 1 quarter in chemical engineering, but never graduated). The majority of playmates pursue degrees in utter fluff, the biggest pulls being “psychology,” “acting/theater,” “journalism,” “communications,” “education,” “junior college,” and that weak pathetic worthless degree that tries to score some credibility as passing itself off as a “business major;” marketing.
Someone might want to tie this together with our recent information on the prevalance of virginity at college compiled by major perhaps?
In English English (my own affliction) we actually call those “fluffy” course “fluffy bunny” courses: something which seems all too appropriate when talking about Playboy really.
But I must admit that the thing that made me laugh like a drain was this comment about economics:
Ironically, and VERY SADLY, the best source for finding playmate majors was Wikipedia, and I did not see one, NOT ONE naked chick!
Only in economics can you conduct a study of playboy playmates and not see anything.
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September 1st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
First, is this really fair, to lump these things as “fluff”? (Do you want a world without actors, journalists, and teachers?) Second (and here perhaps I am being unfair), what would you expect? I am not saying that gorgeous automatically equates to unintelligent (and I am not saying you can not be intelligent if you major in any of these subjects). But I imagine it takes a certain type of personality to strip naked and pose for pictures for the whole world to see. And it hardly seems likely that those majoring in pre-med, physics, accounting, or engineering have this kind of personality.
Tim, wouldn’t you say that the playmate college majors listed are more of “empathizing” fields, while the areas they did not major in would be listed under “systemizing”? Do you know many systemizers who could strip naked to the world?
On a similar note, the Holy Taco blog (I love that name!), http://www.holytaco.com/2008/06/03/the-10-most-worthless-college-majors/, lists what they deem as the “10 most worthless majors.” I do not necessarily agree with these, either (since I am in no way of the camp that believes the only worthwhile degree will earn you a big salary), but they can be funny.
Tim adds: Well, I call them “fluff” because I don’t think they’re degree course. Journalism? It’s a craft, not a profession. Best learnt by joinging a newspaper and actually doing it. Dance? Film? Again, these are things you do, not things you study in an academic setting. There’s nothing wrong with any of them, just as there’s nothing wrong with plumbing (a rather highly paid job actually) or teaching. All entirely valid and valuable ways of making a living. It’s just that academically they’re fluff. They’re not things you require (or get) an academic education to do.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
By the way, Tim, what does it mean to “laugh like a drain”?
Tim adds: Very loudly and non stop. Don’t really know why it means that, but it does.