This kind of comment is why (some) people hate engineers and HN.
Let's save the quantitative words for actual quantities.
There's few things worse than someone stating something or giving advice and then saying, "Well, I obviously didn't mean what I said".
Better to take some time to mean what you say IMO.
Perhaps by some, you meant many? Then you should come out and say it. And even if many people hated engineers, that would still not mean engineers must change.
In the 1960s the USA had a math and science crisis in schools. Russia was far ahead in engineers, possibly because the culture didn’t really put down “nerds and geeks” as much as in the USA. Blaming the victim for using precise language is perhaps missing the point. The US with its huge population desperately played catch-up in STEM until the H1B visa saved the day!
It’s not just my opinion, that’s what Kaku says, among SOME, perhaps MILLIONS, of others: