Large-scale quantitative studies like this are limited by the outcome measures they use, so it's not surprising that public value of art, history, and philosophy is under-estimated. I'll admit I was surprised to see psychology receive more citations in government and the news than economics.

I was also fascinated to see that computer scientists contribute waaay more to patents than to public discourse or policy conversations, which might be part of the problem in tech policy.

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