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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Youve swallowed too much mechanic propaganda about engineers (automotive engineers are the bottom of the barrel btw)
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
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.
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.
i made the batteries myself using the ~30 tests they gave. the description of how i did it is in the appendix
Perhaps 50 years ago Philosophy or Foreign Language majors were taken more seriously?
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
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.
i’m surprised psychology isn’t further down the list
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.
Interesting. Would you happen to have contemporary numbers to compare?