Posted on 09/17/2012 5:17:59 PM PDT by grundle
/johnny
Philosophy and religious studies
Social sciences
Library science
These are no physics majors.
There's a company in Silicon Valley whose declared mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" (google the phrase if you're wondering which). I wonder how many library science majors have managed to get jobs there.
No, but philosophy and English (and French) literature majors have traditionally been on average quite smart. I really don’t know about library science, so I’ll believe their data. As someone else pointed out, none of these averages are especially high.
My point re: the physics anecdote was that engineering majors, while smart enough to do the work aren’t necessarily all that smart. And again, these are the majors to which high school students aspire—lots of those hoping to become engineers won’t make it.
No way engineering majors have an average IQ of only 111.
Bad base presumption, that the average IQ of SAT takes is only 103. The unintelligent don’t go to competitive colleges that require SATs. 1 in 4 Americans don’t graduate HS at all, and only half that do take the SATs.
Engineers certainly are a long way from stupid, but being notably bright isn’t necessarily the case, either. Dogged determination, more discipline than the norm, a degree of monomaniacal focus and better than average memory and spatio-visualization skills serve them better than raw IQ. Those end up being the physics majors.
Can't be right. I've had (2) IQ tests, and don't want to brag, but they came out dozens above that.
Have you looked at the demographics of our current high school students? I bet they don’t average more than 95 overall.
Tesla was an ethnic Serb from Croatia. There is a street named for him in downtown Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.
Ha ha. Seems the only ones posting their IQ scores here have some sort of prideful motivation.
Once again, these aren’t averages for engineers, only for high school students taking the SAT who are planning to major in engineering.
There are plenty of those books.
Leo Szilard?
Physics are subsumed under “physical science”. Physics was my intended major.
Do you know the context of that picture? I had that picture in my Chemistry book decades ago. The caption simply said that the conference they were at was considered the greatest grouping of sheer genius in the history of mankind (and womankind, if you look two to the left of Einstein - GO MADAM!!!).
Which one of the group had the distinction of having won two Nobel prizes in two distinct fields of science? (Hint: the individual's chromosomal makeup also differed from that of the others.)
I am not sure. That doesn’t sound right but at this point I probably would say the same thing if someone mentioned the correct name to me.
Oppenheimer said of Szilard that, if the Bomb could have been built on ideas alone, Leo could have built it all by himself.
"Neutrons and Neutrinos Conference? Down the hall, make a left, it's just past the water fountain.".... "No problem, these crazy conferences always get confused..."
:)
/johnny
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