IQ Estimates by College Major

[Eddie Teach]

The discussion on intelligence in the other thread got me wondering about which majors fell in the top range for intelligence. Blah blah blah

I have nothing regarding this topic, I just want to ask, what thread was this? I hope not the 44 page 25 year old and in debt thread I have so far ignored.

153 pages and yes.

[Eddie Teach]

Holy crap, is the thread really that long?

[Ideologue]

Holy crap, is the thread really that long?

Has the economy structurally changed?

[Admiral Yi]

The interesting thing, though, is that a borderline-retarded verbal score can evidently put you right in the middle of any field of study.

No shit.

[Caliga]

When I went to Marshall <shudder> if you'd ask the dumbest person in whatever class I was in what their major was, they'd always reply, "Bizness".

Things have changed since Marshall's business school made some improvements, but for some reason that still sticks in my head & makes me chuckle.

The dumbest people at Boston U were always Communications majors, which is interesting since it's supposedly got one of the best Communication schools in the country.

[Ed Anger]

Ooooo, dumb college graduates. I once had some sports management donk apply for a supply chain position.

Kid was a moron. Nice guy, but a moron.

[Admiral Yi]

I've met a bunch of people who are getting doctorates in communications at Iowa. 

Seriously, a PhD on how to write a press release?

Wackiestest has got to be a PhD progam on books and printing or somesuch. From what I've been told it seems like they write dissertations on fonts, bindings, and paper stock.

[Caliga]

About half of my freshmen floormates were Comm majors.  For some reason they all had to take International Relations 101.  All I heard all semester was "ZOMG THIS CLASS IS SO HARED!!!!!"
The next year I took the same class with the same professor and sleepwalked my way through it and got an A.  I think I went to like 3 of the lectures and did maybe 25% of the reading.

[DGuller]

Also the Standard Deviation is suspiciously small.

How big should it be?

Big enough to touch the ground.

Assuming a Normal Distribution 99.7% of all people in the same major would have to be within 4.8 points on the SAT for .8 to be an accurate σ.

I think that's not what it means.  I think this is the standard deviation of the estimate of the average.  It's basically margin of error divided by 1.96.

[Valmy]

I think I went to like 3 of the lectures and did maybe 25% of the reading.

Why...would...you....

I just do not get people who pay shitloads to take a class and never show up.

[Caliga]

Dude, it was BORING.  It was shit I already knew!  How is listening to a lecture about stuff I already know a good use of my time?

You know what would have been a good use of my time though?  Offering to tutor the multitude of hot, yet dim, female Communication majors who couldn't hack that class.

[Caliga]

  I just remembered something.  There were also lots of dumb Education majors there.

[Admiral Yi]

Was Captain Hook president when you went there Cal?

[Caliga]

Was Captain Hook president when you went there Cal?

Yep, and I liked him, other than his puritanical overnight guest policies.

[derspiess]

I just remembered something.  There were also lots of dumb Education majors there.

Always cracked me up to find out that some of our dumbest teachers in junior high & high school had Masters in Education from Marshall.  Marshall was supposedly reputed to be one of the better teaching schools, but looking back that must of just been a local urban legend.