Basically I agree that "when in doubt, learn science." In American society, we have more of the norm of "when in doubt, don't learn any science." And that's counterproductive.

In other countries, there are explicit and implicit reminders that science students are smarter than non-science students. In my dad's (European) high school, students were literally tracked from A to F; A was math, B was physics, biology and social sciences were somewhere in the middle, and vocational school was at the bottom. Harsh? Yeah. But it meant that generically smart and ambitious kids wound up in the hard sciences by default.