I studied a lot of machine learning, going into the math and whatnot behind it.
In reality these days, you just start some model with a single line of code and you're set.
You have to know best practices and whatnot, sure, but I fully agree - science and engineering are two different disciplines and should be taught as such.
So the reasoning behind this is probably "childless individuals don't have to think about the future as much".
The natural extension of that reasoning is that older people should have their voting/political power diminished (since they won't be around as long)
I gotta say, a part of me sees the latter as being worth the former... I know it goes against many principles of government, etc. etc. but it certainly is tempting. Any armchair political scientists want to chime in?