Maybe we should get someone with a CS degree running for president. If HN is any indication, it is the only degree to qualify you as an expert in economics, history, politics, various forms of science, religion, and sociology.
Heh. What percentage of people on here do you think have CS degrees? What percentage do you think use them in their careers? What do you think the overlap is between those who have and use CS degrees and those who you think would qualify to be president?
Most CS programs don't teach you anything about "economics, history, politics, various forms of science, religion, and sociology". They may give you the foundation to learn on your own (though from the people I have known that's not the case in even 50% of the time), but so do other degrees. My field was Physics, before I switched to software engineering after graduation. Other good fields that woulds seem to qualify well would be (IMHO): Psychology, Economics, Civil Engineering, Philosophy, etc. In other words most of them.
Lastly, 5-10 years after graduating, the amount of experience you gain in the workforce is going to completely overshadow what you've learned in during your stint in higher education. So unless you are proposing only considering fresh college grads, your degree makes no difference.
I'll give you one concrete example: when I worked at Boston University, the President there had a degree in Chemical Engineering. He did extraordinarily well, especially during the financial crisis.
