tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post160350194492374215..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: To the brainy, the spoilsSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-13816771783195553162013-05-31T17:10:27.662-04:002013-05-31T17:10:27.662-04:00"... truly bizarre..."
Not at all. Have..."... truly bizarre..."<br /><br />Not at all. Have you seen the data on IQ vs income? Have you seen the data on the heritability of psychological traits other than IQ (it's lame). I've gone to school with pushy strivers and smart people. To be sure some were both. I know he is the bogeyman for conservatives, but here's a man who agrees with me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?vMulcasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-89496547587138065072013-05-31T15:31:02.570-04:002013-05-31T15:31:02.570-04:00Sound and fury, signifying while not quite nothing...Sound and fury, signifying while not quite nothing, very little.<br /><br />The comment about "choosing the guy who isn't a pushy striver" reveals that either you didn't read the point I made, or failed to understand it. If you still cling to the belied that one ought to consider a college grad with a 2.9 GPA the absolute equivalent of the graduate with a 3.9 - the undeniable, dwbuddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-56145898208461502872013-05-30T18:23:39.993-04:002013-05-30T18:23:39.993-04:00Wrong again.
By "the rest of the world"...Wrong again.<br /><br />By "the rest of the world" I mean the ENTIRE rest of the world. The only exceptions would be countries where cums aren't the measure of a degree's quality. I believe there is ONLY one other country like this, and it's even worse than the US. That country is Canada. How many times have I met a foreign student who does very well in the US by its own Mulcasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-30017497665328258242013-05-29T17:34:53.062-04:002013-05-29T17:34:53.062-04:00I think that the 2.9 tells you a hell of a lot mor...I think that the 2.9 tells you a hell of a lot more about that guy than the 3.9 tells you about the other. That's what I meant, I guess. When I was a grad student at Stanford (more than 20 years ago now), the undergrads were incredibly grade-conscious, and a, shall we say, "liberal" drop/pass/fail policy had a ratchet effect on grades. I don't know that I would say that all dwbuddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-56468020033562358412013-05-29T16:00:17.496-04:002013-05-29T16:00:17.496-04:00"if one candidate had a GPA of 3.9 and the ot..."if one candidate had a GPA of 3.9 and the other at 2.9, that would tell you nothing about the two?"<br /><br />It would tell you something, but IMHO it would tell you that the 3.9er was a pushy striver. What ever happened to a gentleman's C?<br /><br />In the rest of the world academic success is better correlated with raw ability than it is in the US. American academia selects forMulcasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-15590996957294506872013-05-29T11:32:12.758-04:002013-05-29T11:32:12.758-04:00With all due respect, computer programming - and m...With all due respect, computer programming - and more specifically debugging - is really a commoditised, entry-level task. At one of my prior jobs, I was tasked with developing algorithms in C++, and I had -zero- courses in CS. I learnt what I needed from a couple of hours spent with a book.<br /><br /><br />Of course, that doesn't speak terribly well of the guy who could *not* find the dwbuddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-89606414713601974632013-05-26T19:39:46.906-04:002013-05-26T19:39:46.906-04:00I'm just a vulgar alcoholic with absurdly high...I'm just a vulgar alcoholic with absurdly high test scores, so if I am closer to the truth it's by accident.<br /><br /><br />One issue which is rarely bruted especially in America is the "fit". Even if the hire has everything cognitive going for him, including passion for the subject and expertise, he may not fit. In general people work best with, marry, are friends with, etc. Mulcasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-4141891851527175462013-05-26T06:12:05.416-04:002013-05-26T06:12:05.416-04:00I have a feeling you're closer to the truth th...I have a feeling you're closer to the truth than I am.Jay Yoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-69511190273549089312013-05-25T20:06:31.983-04:002013-05-25T20:06:31.983-04:00You're an example of the stupid pushy American...You're an example of the stupid pushy American. "lazy" is a meaningless word to people who aren't retarded.<br /><br /><br /><br />The best hiring algo would be SAT, ACT, CBATs, APs, GRE general and subject, LSAT, GMAT, etc.<br /><br /><br />American grades are totally meaningless.Mulcasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-28877585065260221982013-05-25T19:28:51.200-04:002013-05-25T19:28:51.200-04:00Come on, GPA is not totally meaningless. If you...Come on, GPA is not totally meaningless. If you're below 3.5 outside of STEM you're either struggling or lazy. Maybe you're just lazy because you're not challenged, but its still good data. I wouldn't want to hire a high score low GPA kid. I'd probably take him over a high GPA low score kid, but of course in the end you hire the kid with both. The problem with Jay's tractalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-32536738761769631292013-05-25T16:37:45.617-04:002013-05-25T16:37:45.617-04:00You're wrong.
Academic performance, even as m...You're wrong.<br /><br />Academic performance, even as measured in the typically retarded American fashion, isn't just a matter of how difficult or competitive the institution. I for one have always performed at a higher percentile when the competition was stiffer.<br /><br />As usual Americans think that as things are done in America is as they are done absolutely.<br /><br />The gpa is Mulcasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-84733965855660716002013-05-24T22:59:20.599-04:002013-05-24T22:59:20.599-04:00It is certainly true that someone who got into a s...It is certainly true that someone who got into a school with greater selectivity has a statistically significant chance of having "slipped up LESS", having been "MORE of an intellectual success versus someone who didn't get into that school. But to look two talent pools and reject one of them outright on that basis is foolish. What a rational hiring manager would do would be toJay Yoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-63526942275974885922013-05-20T21:00:00.122-04:002013-05-20T21:00:00.122-04:00This makes me want to puke. High IQ people should...This makes me want to puke. High IQ people should be successful because the market rewards intelligent behavior in the real world, not because the market rewards high IQ credentials from school. That's just a self-fulfilling prophecy which takes all the fun and fascination out of capitalism. Please boycott Ivy League universities and anyone who graduates from them.Iamexpertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-19902082516462576042013-05-20T18:58:39.648-04:002013-05-20T18:58:39.648-04:00A drop out from a physics PhD program at Northwest...A drop out from a physics PhD program at Northwestern, a Japanese American BTW, asked me to look at some Excel VBA code he'd been unable to debug for a year. With no more experience than one course in C++ and another in FORTRAN I found the error in an hour. I told him. He insisted I write a flow chart explaining the error he'd made. I was fired from that job for being too stupid to do theMulcasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-3900089346273190882013-05-20T11:04:29.314-04:002013-05-20T11:04:29.314-04:00I have to confess that writing Excel macros is mis...I have to confess that writing Excel macros is miserable, and I fail at it regularly. VBA does absolutely nothing of what I want it to do, so everything I do with it is a jury rig.David Coughlinhttp://twitter.com/dscoughlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-52944783122947935862013-05-19T22:41:23.843-04:002013-05-19T22:41:23.843-04:00http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
Here'...http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html<br /><br />Here's an article written by a former MIT grad who burned at out BCG.<br /><br />"Stretching reality<br /><br />The first clue that my mental picture of consulting was off came with “training” in Munich. I expected instruction in Excel programming, data analysis, and business theory. Instead, Munich turned out to be little more than a Yan Shenhttp://profiles.google.com/yanshen71786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-86653503391965843582013-05-19T17:07:43.236-04:002013-05-19T17:07:43.236-04:00Rentec is HFT, which is to finance what roaches ar...Rentec is HFT, which is to finance what roaches are to architecture.HughLygonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-18616807770044569432013-05-19T08:07:07.344-04:002013-05-19T08:07:07.344-04:00Do you think "top students" have trouble...Do you think "top students" have trouble running Excel? ;-)<br /><br /><br />In ordinary business and accounting (as opposed, say, to derivatives pricing or HFT trading) there is a limit to the level of quantitative tools that are actually useful. Most of the time some basic statistical analysis plus back of the envelope estimates (maybe, wow, a linear or gaussian model) are all that steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-68239768863739315782013-05-19T06:05:31.903-04:002013-05-19T06:05:31.903-04:00"Even in the quantitatively rigorous field of..."Even in the quantitatively rigorous field of consulting [HA HA HA]" <br /><br /><br /><br />I thought Big 3 consulting is indeed quantitatively intense, even for students of top Ivy League schools or public flagships like Cal, let alone your average Joe at podunk Midwest State U. Unless your judging by the standards of a theoretical physicist.....Riordannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-90997726049903442502013-05-17T22:28:19.477-04:002013-05-17T22:28:19.477-04:00Well, high IQ Americans of high rank means high IQ...Well, high IQ Americans of high rank means high IQ plus obedience.HughLygonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87955774866867554762013-05-17T21:27:58.815-04:002013-05-17T21:27:58.815-04:00You've hit the nail on the head to be trite. T...You've hit the nail on the head to be trite. The US is SHIT!HughLygonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-25028263452594667312013-05-16T19:26:32.398-04:002013-05-16T19:26:32.398-04:00Pretty weird they're using the SAT's as a ...Pretty weird they're using the SAT's as a primary proxy but not even looking at the SATs. Another arbitrage opportunity?tractalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-31950435552493429582013-05-16T17:49:09.440-04:002013-05-16T17:49:09.440-04:00Surely that Stephen Small guy isn't smart enou...Surely that Stephen Small guy isn't smart enough for Bain. I mean, he didn't even go to HYP! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-83241594323066917512013-05-16T16:28:22.029-04:002013-05-16T16:28:22.029-04:00"Fortunately, since even the dumbed down SAT ..."Fortunately, since even the dumbed down SAT is still pretty g loaded, <br />hard elite firms can be confident that the lion's share of top talent is<br /> at elite universities."<br /><br />Huh? Doesn't follow at all. Journalists are so dumb.<br /><br /><br />"...the success of HYPS grads becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy..."<br /><br />Got that right.HughLygonnoreply@blogger.com