Posted on 09/17/2012 5:17:59 PM PDT by grundle
IQ estimates by intended college major via SAT scores
Assuming the mean IQ of SAT test-takers included in a report by the College Board to be 103*, the estimated average IQ of students by intended college major follow. The estimates exclude writing results, which were added in 2005 and constitute what is generally considered the least objectively reliable part of the test**. The critical reading and mathematics (previously known as the quantitative section) portions are equally weighted:
Intended major IQ
Interdisciplinary studies 114.0
Physical sciences 111.2
Mathematics and statistics 110.7
English and literature 110.1
Foreign language 109.8
Philosophy and religious studies 109.6
Social sciences 109.3
Library science 108.7
Engineering 108.5
Biological and biomedical sciences 107.7
Liberal arts & sciences and humanities 107.5
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender studies 106.8
Theology and religious vocations 106.4
Undecided 106.2
History 106.0
Natural resources and conservation 104.6
Military sciences 104.1
Computer and information sciences 103.9
Communication and journalism 103.5
Architecture 103.2
Visual and performing arts 103.0
Legal professions 102.8
Psychology 101.3
Business 101.2
Health professions 100.8
Engineering technicians 99.9
Education 99.3
Agriculture 99.2
Transportation 98.7
Other 97.8
Family and consumer sciences 97.5
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness 97.5
Public administration and social services 96.6
Culinary services 96.5
Security and protection 95.9
Precision production 95.2
Construction trades 94.3
Mechanic and repair technician 93.3
>> You posited that 25% of students dropped out of high school, but I gave you a recent statistic that it is only 7.4%. <<
We have competing statistics. They both are true, but they both mean different things. Mine said that 25% drop out. Yours said that only 7.4% lack a diploma OR AN EQUIVALENCE. I’m trying to explain to you that “or an equivalence” is where the discrepancy comes from. Your statistic is not counting those who have taken a GED as not having dropped out.
Your notion that the overall student body has a low IQ is completely unfounded. The average IQ of an American teenager has not declined as the population has gotten more diverse.
On the other hand, Marilyn Savant has an IQ of 190, and is nothing more than a columnist for the Sunday inserts.
I'm not so sure about that.
But isn’t the new GRE just being phased in?
Hey! I resemble that!
I don’t think I would qualify as ‘bookish’.
More like John Madden, with a healthy respect for literature.
I find I have to be more like O’Connell in “The Mummy”.
Specially in “Mummy II” when he is hanging on the edge of Hell and the lost souls are clawing at him trying to drag him down. That’s my job.
Since your list made no sense I referred to the article’s list of subjects.
Who the hell knows what you were talking about since the post made no sense on its own.
I’m sure it didn’t make any sense to you, the college drop out.
I have more degrees than you.
IQs are all over the board:
Non Israeli Jews are 110-115...Israeli Jews are 15 points on average less...European culture has it's fine points...or had
East Asians..those we used to call Mongoliod race are 100-106
Caucasians as a rule....100-105 average...though Austrians and Swedes are on average 10-15 points higher than Croat mean...and so forth
Hispanics vary from 100 in Argentina and Chile to 87 in Mexico which indicates to me a racial component
Black Americans average 85...quite above their motherland kin
Tropical Africans span from 60 to 80
Northern Africans...mostly Arabs and hybrids thereof average low 80s
Below 70 is considered retardation with degrees that once used archaic yet arguably definitive terms such as moron, imbecile and idiot in that order to describe that sad bottom depth
We today discount all this...and that bears consequence.
It bears consequence in the aggregate. Individuals given the chance can be the exception but that is NEVER EVER the outcome in general..a fact we ignore and have ignored for decades now.
And the proof is in the pudding...just look around you (metaphorically)
I thought Professor Obama would be in that picture.
Perhaps, for the internet.
But Google doesn’t do internal companey documents. :)
According to the book 'Bell Curve', the Ashkenazi Jews have a higher IQ than any other people.
I’ll ask the psychometrics guy maybe they will allow it, but it will probably take some time to be normalized.
“On the other hand, Marilyn Savant has an IQ of 190, and is nothing more than a columnist for the Sunday inserts.”
Approximately 6,000,000 Americans would qualify to join Mensa, should they apply.
Over 100,000 of them would further qualify to be an ‘MM’, one who is to Mensans in the aggregate as Mensans are to the general population.
More than 2,000 of these folks are smarter than Marilyn; there are a lot of smart people in this world, but that hasn’t solved our problems.
That top 2% is what Mensa is aiming for. Because they take anyone who has ever scored in the top 2% of a qualifying test, their net is actually quite a bit broader than that, considering outlier scores from the much larger population.
GRE was dropped because computer version could be gamed due to small pool of questions.
Didn’t even know there was a computer version.
I didn't either, but that what the psychometrics guy says. It's his job to keep the Mensans out.
Ha ha.
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