Quote Originally Posted by brewbuck View Post
This idea that IT, CE, CS, etc are somehow a spectrum with the "stupids" at one end and the "smarts" at the other is just ridiculous and needs to go away. They are different fields with different goals. They all happen to involve computers -- so what?
It's no more ridiculous than the notion that physicists are smarter than literature majors.

You can see which majors tend to have smarter people by looking at what direction people go when they find out that they're too dumb for their major. You don't see people who couldn't handle IT moving into CS; it's the other way around. All the people I know who've left the IT program for CS found IT to be easy and boring.