Discriminations

Thomas Bartlett writes on a Chronicle of Higher Education blog this morning that “social sciences are easier than the natural sciences, according to second graders.”

Adults more or less agree. A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology took a look at which disciplines children and adults thought were the most difficult to learn. For the most part, people of all ages think psychology is easy and physics is hard. That bias begins early and changes some, but not much, the older we get.