I doubt anyone has hard data on this, but I'm wondering what people on this
list would guess is the average IQ of Ph.D. economists? Would it be much
different from the average IQ of Ph.D.s in general?
Why not look at GRE scores (or do they still require GREs?)
Rodney Weiher
Stephen Miller wrote:
I doubt anyone has hard data on this, but I'm wondering what people on this
list would guess is the average IQ of Ph.D. economists? Would it be much
different from the average IQ of Ph.D.s in
At Chicago, econ math GRE's tend to be substantially higher than other
social science Ph.D.'s. Verbal scores are comparable to humanities
Ph.D.'s. Also remember that econ depts take a lot of asian students, which
probably pushes down the verbal GRE score. More generally, any time you
require math,
A far cry from perfect, but if you use the GRE as a test of intelligence, economics
PhD students are the fourth most intelligent behind physicists, mathematicians, and
computer scientists - according to the ETS in 2002. Mean scores for engineering (in
some forms) are not much lower - but
Do you have a cite for that, Zach?
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A far cry from perfect, but if you use the GRE as a test of intelligence, economics PhD students are the fourth most intelligent behind physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists - according to the ETS in 2002. Mean scores for
In the book Sociology and its publics, Neil Smelser has a chart
comparing GRE's for various disciplines. His point was that sociology, in
comparison to other social sciences such as economics, get bad recruits.
Fabio
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Do you have a cite for that, Zach?
