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Selected academic fields by estimated intelligence
- teqsun 2y agoactual source the tweet links to: https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2013/07/intelligenceiqgre-by-academic-field/ https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2013/07/intelligenceiqgre-by-ac...
- nihzm 2y agoAfter a quick google search I found that the author is amidst many controversies and definitely not a reputable source of information. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPsych https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPsych
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y agoOne dentist makes more than 10 philosophers. Who's intelligent now?
- nihzm 2y agoI am quite skeptical about the possibility of condensing the complexity of “intelligence” down to a single number “g”, but even if this were some kind of approximate metric for actual intelligence, I do not see how this type of “research” is of any use. It only seems to promote unnecessary social abrasion by letting those who belong to the more “intelligent” fields inhale too deeply of their own success and making the others feel less. It is at best misleading and at worst borderline eugenics.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoEstimated by who? By some account on Twitter. Estimated how? By GRE SDU score for graduates. That's better than I expected, except that there is no link to the source of the data, so there's no verifiability. (Note that teqsun linked to the actual source in a top-level comment here. Also note that the actual source ranks "Classical Language" as the second-highest field, which is a rather glaring exception from the impression given by the tweet.)