Anything more than basic math is unnecessary for many college majors

In response to your first paragraph- I was stating that many people find out too late how necessary advanced maths is to their career. Certainly, for some, their career goal has no advanced maths. But some do. And those jobs often don't appear to be maths related, and without this, many would find their jobs significantly harder, facing the possibility of having to give up their goals. No one should have to go through that. In response to your second paragraph- I will not confuse the two here. Psychology is about curing, psychiatry is about preventing mental illness. But the most important word in that paragraph is "often". That means that some do not enter those fields, and do end up in other situations. And they would not be grateful to have had a field that might have had knowledge they need stolen from them. And there will be some. To suggest that advanced maths should be stopped is unjustified, mainly just being people being too selfish to give others a chance in life at the cost of... what? It doesn't cost you anything more than a little time. And also, for your final point this paragraph, the wording I used was perhaps vague. So to clarify- What I meant was that they need to be skilled in statistical analysis. The more skilled they are, the higher employers will pay them, and the more likely they are to be employed in the first place. In response to your third paragraph- Yes, absolutely. The different policies in NZ make it very hard to argue this. But onto your other point, upon office jobs. The thing is, I'm not saying all advanced maths is good. Some should be optional. But to drop advanced maths altogether in many college majors is bound to come back to haunt us. That meme does say a lot. But it says more that basic maths and life needs should be focused upon than that advanced maths should be dropped. It's pointing out how basic maths needs to come first. But it never says that advanced maths should be given up. Also, just to point out "No one can tell you when they last had to use the Pythagorean Theorem of Pythagoras." means nothing. I'd bet that a large number of people couldn't tell you when they last used the word elephant. But they almost certainly have. And finally, to your last paragraph. That sort of assignment actually has more merit than you'd think. You're viewing it from the mind of a consumer, where X and Y is given. In business, you have to make the Y and X, based on what you want customers to actually pay you for Z. So you work backwards. As such, those assignments do come in useful. And one point I'd like to mention- The title is "Anything more than basic math is unnecessary for many college majors" And some things, such as statistical analysis, certainly not basic maths, but necessary in many, many jobs, including in fact your previous psychology example. So while not all advanced maths is going to come in handy, by naming this debate with "Anything" that means that anything above the basics that is useful to a large population automatically proves the pro advanced maths debater correct. And statistics proves that. So for these reasons and more, advanced maths should still be mandatory for college majors. Thank you for starting this debate, may the best debater win.