Can confirm. All the people I knew at uni who went along to the science fiction club or anime or the gaming society were unfailingly liberal arts students. I think Geography was the hardest science I found among them. All the science students were usually off getting piss drunk at the SU every night. I knew one of them who would routinely show up to lab days high as a kite. He's now doing a doctorate heaven help us.
Hm.
In my bachelors, the Computer Science and Engineering guys were massive nerds, but the other applied engineering guys tended to be pretty normal or they were (in Mechanical Engineering) good ole boys.
I never met many science students, but the Chemistry guys seemed like real Chads, the definition of well-rounded and always physically fit and socially graceful.
When I started economics graduate school, I was a little disappointed that it turned out that they seem like a bunch of jocks. Smart jocks, jocks who tend to know a lot about history and geography and the like, but everybody except for me is into sports (played ball in school or watches professional sports) and none of them except me play instruments/are interested in art. Like to gamble on poker. This one motherfucker asked me what games I play and I said open-world RPGs, and he says, "Like League of Legends?"
Basically, the "hard" business disciplines (econ, finance, accounting, etc.) also seem to attract people who don't know what a video game is and wouldn't be caught dead with a comic book, and are too busy out drinking, playing cards, and cheering as Blacks throw balls around.
You know, critics of the Big Bang Theory also completely miss the point of "bazinga" when they mock it. Bazinga isn't a lol-so-random-funny-word joke. It's a Sheldon-is-such-a-sperg-that-he-has-to-resort-to-sitcom-like-catchphrases-to-try-to-be-funny joke. Bazinga is a joke about bazinga.
Every single clip of Young Sheldon I have seen had Sheldon saying some smart-assed shit to his parents or other authority figures that would have lead to a smash cut to my tomb if I had said it to anyone. While this has often been true of smarth-mouthed sitcom children, it seems particularly enhanced with Young Sheldon.
The show's not that bad, but that is a problem. The show isn't just Sheldon; if anything, I like the rest of the family (just a bunch of Texan rednecks) a lot more. It's a good family sitcom about normal people having to deal with a child genius in the family who is a realistic portrayal of a child genius (unlike something like, say, Family Matters with Urkel, where it's way wackier and over-the-top). But they give Sheldon a pass on things, which sometimes also happens IRL, but doesn't make it any more fun to watch when the kid needs his clock cleaned.
