One problem though, humanities and social/behavioral science still dominate the overall enrollment. STEM enrollment although increasing recently, still has relatively been constant through the years. You could argue more people are going towards business majors, but business majors end up having to take those courses anyway. That still should not explain the difference in rigor when it comes to STEM vs humanities/social/behavioral sciences.
How does that make it STEM? If I study social science and use math does that make social science stem? Or does it mean you used a lot of modelling in a non stem subject?
you can name anything anything. Rename astrology as future science and that doesn't make it science. Social science is science like or science-y, but not science. Same with economics. They are heavy in math. They are math adjacent. They are not the study of math. They are a not a science. They are not engineering. economics is not STEM and grouping it with stem is weird.
Example: https://www.ppic.org/blog/is-the-decline-in-the-humanities-o...