According to the "Academically Adrift" study, humanities and social science majors show the second highest gains in critical thinking skills, behind only science/math, above engineering and computer science.

Is this a reflection of the influence of course participation or of reasoning capability prior to entry?

For some reason, I very much want this to be true. And I take that as a warning sign. Does anyone know if it is true? And what sort of test could possibly measure 'maths creativity' and 'english creativity' on the same scale anyway?

To the extent that students are showing limited and declining learning, it largely reflexs a switch to business and education majors (business shows the least learning ,with education right behind),

There a joke someone in education major being near the bottom when it comes to learning, but at the moment I don't know how to best make it.