but dont you think when kids are in high school or college, they think about what they wanna be? I doubt people look into NASA funding to decide whether to go into the hard sciences or just stick with computers
Are you arguing not enough kids go into the hard sciences? That's certainly another debatable point, but different from the one I'm making.
I'm pointing out that of the people who _already_ go into the hard sciences and even get a PhD, we can't keep them in the hard sciences due to a lack of good research jobs for them. So they take an IT job.
