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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Oi oi oi-- EH!? NANDE YO!!! YOU BAKA!!!! *ahem* sorry, I am just baffled that Engineering is higher than math, even though the engineering field is famous for having many stupid retarded idiots in it who don't do any real work. Maybe engineering meant something else in the 1970s. Crazy how languages change over time.

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themiddleman5's avatar

Youve swallowed too much mechanic propaganda about engineers (automotive engineers are the bottom of the barrel btw)

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Oranon's avatar

we are the ones producing all the bombs , fighter jets and ai tracking turrets for israel. so we are higher in the pecking order naturally

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Gordon Tremeshko's avatar

Cool list, but it’s a little odd that Accounting and Business are two separate majors. When I was in college, the undergrad business school offered I think four different majors: Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and I think kind of a generic “Operations Management” major. I would bet there’s some decent variation in IQ between the Finance majors and the other two, given how math heavy finance is. Seems like all business related majors should be lumped together or split out separately.

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David's avatar

Did Project Talent specify what tests they used to get those IQ scores? I find it very hard to accept that Zoology/Philosophy or a foreign language is just 1 IQ point below math majors. In fact, the math major scores are quite low.

My personal observation of the university I went to (a public elite university) suggests that people in the pure sciences (math, physics, chemistry) are at the top. Followed by engineering and then by business, finance, economics.

All humanities majors like philosophy, history, women's studies, journalism, english majors, etc are the bottom of the barrel. Most of these women (and yes, most are women) are barely above 100.

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Sebastian Jensen's avatar

i made the batteries myself using the ~30 tests they gave. the description of how i did it is in the appendix

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Joshua C's avatar

Perhaps 50 years ago Philosophy or Foreign Language majors were taken more seriously?

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NitroRiceDealer's avatar

This is from the 70s so the sex ratios would have been different. It's still hard to believe that it's so close to maths but the psychological profile of zoology/philosophy majors was probably different back then

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Joe Schmoe's avatar

The data is too old to still be interesting and relevant. I bet you would see big changes if you did this type of work with current students today.

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Oranon's avatar

i’m surprised psychology isn’t further down the list

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Seba's avatar

Interesting that the data backs the intuition - some degrees move a few spots but remembering University the vast majority of low IQ people followed the same pattern especially sociology and the “weak” degrees.

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JCP's avatar

Interesting. Would you happen to have contemporary numbers to compare?

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