IQ Estimates by College Major

[Admiral Yi]

We had the exact same thing, except ACT scores, a while back.

[DGuller]

Also the Standard Deviation is suspiciously small.

How big should it be?

[DGuller]

Pffft CC caved so easily.

Yeah, its like she went out of her way to post something stupid to get me.

[Savonarola]

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.

[derspiess]

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.

[MadBurgerMaker]

It's "Bidness." 

[Valmy]

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.

Wow the dumbest person at Marshall?  Amazed they could breathe oxygen.

[Admiral Yi]

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.

Too many English majors at ETS.

They must have meant the confidence interval for the population means, no?

Subtopic: bizness is the euphemism the Mafia uses, bidness is what negroes say.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Also rednecks and whatever that super old, super white professor of mine was.  "Bidness"  I thought it was funny, at least for a little while.  Then it was just bidness.

[Ideologue]

Iirc philosophy as is usually taught is more like logical construction and argument, thus akin to mathematics.  So theoretically useful if unfortunately lumped together with lame stuff like how, say, Democritus' made-up fantasy universe vaguely resembled actual science done with experimentation, measurement, and intellectual rigor.

Anyway, I was a bit surprised to see that engineering average falls into the stupid range, but of course they make up for barely being able to speak English in being good at math.  ("Stupid" is defined as any SAT score equal to or below my own.)

[Ideologue]

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

[Savonarola]

Anyway, I was a bit surprised to see that engineering average falls into the stupid range, but of course they make up for barely being able to speak English in being good at math.  ("Stupid" is defined as any SAT score equal to or below my own.)

It's like blind people having superior hearing.   

[lustindarkness]

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.

[derspiess]

Wow the dumbest person at Marshall?  Amazed they could breathe oxygen.

You have no idea.

[Ideologue]

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.

SEE FUCKING MATH YEAH.