tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post5908975730234049362..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: STEM paysSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-18476215695218339752014-02-10T21:28:48.236-05:002014-02-10T21:28:48.236-05:00I really like this statistics for understand a the...I really like this statistics for understand a theme of anything clearly. A statistic can say everything about a project. So anybody can understand easily.<br /><a href="http://www.7dayscleaning.com.au/end-of-lease-cleaning-sydney.asp" rel="nofollow">End of Lease Cleaning</a>Carpet cleaning Sydneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-63019515698653327942014-01-28T07:26:58.096-05:002014-01-28T07:26:58.096-05:00http://www.hks.harvard.edu/inequality/Seminar/Pape...http://www.hks.harvard.edu/inequality/Seminar/Papers/BowlesJEP.pdf<br />http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html<br />http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/10/17/the-heritability-of-intelligence-not-what-you-think/<br /><br />the above links show that 100% of the iq income correlation is mediated by formal education. AND that only 1/20th of intergenerational incomelarrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-72894266784593947512014-01-27T23:15:35.362-05:002014-01-27T23:15:35.362-05:00ol keeps repeating his rot and jive talk. i guess ...ol keeps repeating his rot and jive talk. i guess old dogs can't learn new tricks.<br /><br />once the stupid are excluded 100% of the iq income correlation is mediated by formal education credentials. http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html. the wordsum used as iq proxy in the gss is better than this blogger knows. vocab is 1. the most g-loaded 2. the most reliable 3. the most larrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-90128863369704210312014-01-27T23:14:32.295-05:002014-01-27T23:14:32.295-05:00ol keeps repeating his rot and jive talk. i guess ...ol keeps repeating his rot and jive talk. i guess old dogs can't learn new tricks.<br /><br />once the stupid are excluded 100% of the iq income correlation is mediated by formal education credentials. http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html. the wordsum used as iq proxy is better than this blogger knows. vocab is 1. the most g-loaded 2. the most reliable 3. the most heritable larrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-71448192520422176582014-01-27T23:03:18.753-05:002014-01-27T23:03:18.753-05:00ol's depends need changing badly.
he thinks o...ol's depends need changing badly.<br /><br />he thinks of iq as if it were magic. it isn't. it's the only thing which might make psychology a science, but it fails even at that.<br /><br />so he and others use "iq" as proxy for "native intellectual/cognitive ability, smartness, etc.". and all of these "concepts" vaporize under scrutiny.<br /><br />for ol larrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-34492376024178171202014-01-27T17:45:21.633-05:002014-01-27T17:45:21.633-05:00An interesting observation from another discussion...An interesting observation from another discussion of this work: "Excluding the graduate-degree holders, humanities and social-science majors earned less than professional and pre-professional majors." http://chronicle.com/article/How-Liberal-Arts-Majors-Fare/144133<br />(I'm assuming they did a fair comparison and removed all graduate degree holders, not just for one group?)<br />Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-26675956991819568412014-01-27T00:51:49.306-05:002014-01-27T00:51:49.306-05:00if only the majority of men weren't sheep this...if only the majority of men weren't sheep this all would have happened a long time ago. i've had no use for a classroom since i was 15.<br /><br />if people did not seek and did not accept professorships other than the purely research variety these solutions would appear almost immediately. just as if people held tax advising in disdain taxes would almost immediately be simplified.<br /><larrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-83950208065279213042014-01-26T21:08:20.832-05:002014-01-26T21:08:20.832-05:00MOOCs are the hot new thing, but I prefer books, w...MOOCs are the hot new thing, but I prefer books, websites, pdfs. There is a place for lectures, but something more along the lines of a television show such as NOVA would take better advantage of the online medium. The main advantages of physical lectures are that they force students to go through each one in a single sitting according to a schedule, there is a social element, and reality is MUltannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-38982854146000001782014-01-26T13:54:28.011-05:002014-01-26T13:54:28.011-05:00Good points. I wonder if the focus should be on a...Good points. I wonder if the focus should be on aspects of the high school curriculum? As an example, my fantasy world would add something like:<br />- Critical thinking (e.g. reasoning/logic, evaluation/use of evidence, and presenting/evaluating a supported argument)<br />- Basic statistics - focused on understanding and evaluating statistics used in public discourse<br />- Practical math - Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-77806100738538952052014-01-26T12:20:53.513-05:002014-01-26T12:20:53.513-05:00Depends on what is meant by biotech, of course. Ju...Depends on what is meant by biotech, of course. Just browse through youtube and you<br />can see what's in the pipeline. I particularly like thought control, dream-recording.<br />Real Harry Potterish, Marvel comics stuff.Haciendanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87284601751390501522014-01-25T21:32:23.310-05:002014-01-25T21:32:23.310-05:00no, and you're right innovation starts in govt...no, and you're right innovation starts in govt funded research more often than not. that's one of the reasons people like paul ryan are so laughable and despicable. angela merkel is a phd in p-chem. ryan isn't and such a person could never become president in the us or the uk. austria's legislators are the best educated, or so i've read. america's the least, in the larrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-39419030502646727732014-01-25T15:10:36.228-05:002014-01-25T15:10:36.228-05:00I disagree with the basic premise other than that ...I disagree with the basic premise other than that IQ plays a role in max income that totally overwhelms the degree of educational attainment as a factor. i.e. Degrees attained are only are rough surrogates for intelligence. I earned amounts several standard deviations above those average peak earner graphs with only a B.A. degree (albeit it one with calculus, formal logic, and statistical Rudelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-58090713484993976262014-01-25T10:55:53.756-05:002014-01-25T10:55:53.756-05:00Are you an engineer?
Biotech and bioengineering ...Are you an engineer?<br /><br /><br />Biotech and bioengineering will/are changing the world. Apple was Job's company. Silicon valley is a silly place where nothing really ever has been accomplished. All basic innoviations are government/military/university. We'd all be happier if Apple/Google/Microsoft never existed.Haciendanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-64779811649820334132014-01-24T21:34:10.169-05:002014-01-24T21:34:10.169-05:00both were english. both had red hair. did one more...both were english. both had red hair. did one more important than both, maudslay, have red hair too. i have an irish setter, but otherwise red hair is gross.<br /><br />i've<br /> always thought little of shakespeare, but if there were iq tests back <br />then i'd expect both shakespeare and newton to score very high, but with<br /> different 'profiles'.<br /><br />but in terms oflarrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-3206468002330711052014-01-23T19:59:21.028-05:002014-01-23T19:59:21.028-05:00"Only 1% of college-age people have the IQ an..."Only 1% of college-age people have the IQ and work ethic required to complete a STEM degree."<br /><br />thank you for sharing that figure. but didn't you make it up?<br /><br />"At the BS engineering level, a significant fraction of graduates never work in their discipline..."<br /><br /><br />and in math and nat sci it's much higher. a problem is non-stem people, larrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-3348816751367282422014-01-23T19:21:37.451-05:002014-01-23T19:21:37.451-05:00No .. that would be college for everyone.No .. that would be college for everyone.Patricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-69163138928238655722014-01-23T15:24:24.772-05:002014-01-23T15:24:24.772-05:00I calculated the average yearly raise and got the ...I calculated the average yearly raise and got the following (Being one <br />of those rare people who are equally bad at arithmetic w/wo a computer, <br />I'm showing the inputs):<br /><br />{humanities, professional, science & math} = <br /><br />{(66.2/26.3)^(1/35), (64.2/31.2)^(1/35), (86.5/26.0)^(1/35)} = <br />{1.02673, 1.02083, 1.03494}<br /><br />Science salaries might barely keep gsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1357682717628149222014-01-23T10:10:52.443-05:002014-01-23T10:10:52.443-05:00Newton is smarter than Shakespeare?
That'a ...Newton is smarter than Shakespeare? <br /><br /><br />That'a a tough, tough call. Shakespeare's pretty damn underestimated by mathematicians, philosophers, and<br />the general population.<br /><br /><br />And Newton was prone to some stupid errors, in addition to being a general +sshole that nobody liked.<br /><br /><br />Modern day, I don't believe things have changed that much.Haciendanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-81357975410370156682014-01-23T07:03:56.836-05:002014-01-23T07:03:56.836-05:00Only 1% of college-age people have the IQ and work...Only 1% of college-age people have the IQ and work ethic required to complete a STEM degree. <br /><br /><br />That's 1%. What do you intend to do for the rest of the population? Gas chambers? Gulags? Plantations?<br /><br /><br />Currently, we have substantial overproduction of STEM degrees. At the BS engineering level, a significant fraction of graduates never work in their discipline, BobSykesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59227172644857125722014-01-22T21:58:58.886-05:002014-01-22T21:58:58.886-05:00any doofus "should" make $100K these day...any doofus "should" make $100K these days<br /><br /><br />but some doofuses DO and some DO NOT.larrydarrell1917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-86768255495934411072014-01-22T18:16:23.893-05:002014-01-22T18:16:23.893-05:00Everything you need to know in one chart.Everything you need to know in one chart.Robert Buttonsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-70364467894161252922014-01-22T15:34:32.265-05:002014-01-22T15:34:32.265-05:00I see that turn at 51+ happening all over the plac...I see that turn at 51+ happening all over the place. Lots of guys who didn't make it very far in management, and whose technical skills can be replaced by younger engineers. They get laid off and take moderate to big pay cuts to be apparatchiks.David Coughlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-10221814509276747382014-01-22T14:04:10.009-05:002014-01-22T14:04:10.009-05:00I have some difficulty with this data. First of al...I have some difficulty with this data. First of all my experience is that any doofus should make $100K these days. Secondly it looks like only those employed are counted. A reasonably successful lawyer should make $200K a year but most lawyers hardly ever earn a fee at all. Without some kind of variance or inequality measure like a Gini index these data are not very illuminating. For example, patnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-89576592212094039782014-01-22T11:45:02.767-05:002014-01-22T11:45:02.767-05:00I wonder if the JD really believed that or if s/he...I wonder if the JD really believed that or if s/he was poorly stating a belief that JDs made more lifetime (i.e. lifetime earnings made up for the delayed start). Or was it more a matter of "More of the successful people I know have liberal arts majors than STEM"?<br /><br />I think it is worth mentioning that the title on the first page of the linked brochure is "Liberal Arts Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-48101900464301712892014-01-22T11:00:30.609-05:002014-01-22T11:00:30.609-05:0020k split at the of SIXTY! between humanities and...20k split at the of SIXTY! between humanities and science. When you balance out quality of life, eg who make<br />better friends and company. Who gets the good looking chicks. Who gets to live spontaneously and with some<br />adventure. Who gets to keep their basic human instincts intact. It's not even close. Humanities, all the way!Haciendanoreply@blogger.com