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That's just at the mean. It skews even more once you start heading toward the tails, the high end of which you would expect to see in the engineering labor forc
by ghostcluster 9y ago
That's just at the mean. It skews even more once you start heading toward the tails, the high end of which you would expect to see in the engineering labor force.
- geofft 9y agoHow many standard deviations past the mean do you need to be to work in STEM? One way to bound this is to look at the number of people in STEM careers. 6.2% of US jobs were in STEM in 2015 (https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2017/science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics-stem-occupations-past-present-and-future/pdf/science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics-stem-occupations-past-present-and-future.pdf https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2017/science-technology-engine...), meaning that STEM employment requires at most being just under 2 standard deviations above the mean—and that only if you assume that society optimizes perfectly to fill all of those careers with the people most suited to them in terms of base biological aptitude. Once you throw in other factors like location and access to education, it probably gets significantly lower than that. Would you say that all your coworkers at all STEM jobs you've been at have been at least one standard deviation above the mean at aptitude for the job?