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So how did /sci/ receive this? I wasn't here when this thing happened.

You can't make this shit up.

https://plot.ly/~etpinard/330/us-college-majors-average-iq-of-students-by-gender-ratio/

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/average-iq-of-students-by-college-major-and-gender-ratio/

>> No.6627315

>>6627311
Doesn't really surprise me. I think there were some people who did something similar, but where they only looked at the IQs of people who enrolled. They got basically the same result, with physics having the highest (132), then philosophy (129) and mathematics (128). They didn't control for gender though. And I cannot remember the link.

>> No.6627319

>>6627315
Oh, the IQ - major correlation is nothing shocking yes, but holy shit that strong correlation between IQ and the percent of females enrolled in that degree

>> No.6627325

>>6627319
Oh yeah, that's true. As far as I know there isn't much of a correlation between IQ and gender, so it leaves me wondering what all the high-IQ females are doing.

Mathematics is a bit of an outlier though, but this is exactly what I see in my own university. They have surprisingly many females. I have no idea why, though.

>> No.6627326

>>6627325
Apparently, although the average IQ for females and males are comparable, the extremes tend to be more out there for males

>> No.6627328

>>6627325
>have no idea why
Higher female demographics

>> No.6627329

>>6627326
Yes, this is true. Males are more likely to fall into extremes on the intelligence curve. But remember, most if not all IQ tests are designed to give males and females the same average.

>> No.6627331

>>6627311
>tfw the only reason for why maths is lower than physics on the iq scale is because it has more females

>> No.6627332

>>6627328
How do you mean?

>>6627329
These were based on SAT scores. I'm not sure what it means for normalization.

There are some good explanations in the comments. For example many of the average-IQ males tend to go to technical schools or just work factory jobs, whereas more women go to college. And many of the fields to the right have a lot more students, which simply makes the IQ regress towards average.

>> No.6627333

>>6627331
Nah m8, we're just smarter than you.

>> No.6627335

>>6627332
>And many of the fields to the right have a lot more students
do they really?

>> No.6627338

⇒estimating IQ based on SAT scores

Into the trash it goes. SAT is a test to weed out people with intellectual disabilities. It does not allow for classification within the higher intelligence range.

>> No.6627340

>>6627338
But they also link to some studies to show a correlation between SAT and IQ

>> No.6627344

>>6627335
Yes. Health profession for example lumps everything from nurses to doctors to radiologist into one. And education if a huge field, compared to physics or CS. They even treat a whole faculty (social science) as one data point.

>> No.6627345

>>6627340
warning, this is a crazy chick from /lit/, don't fall for her bait

>> No.6627346

>>6627340
Low SAT and low IQ are obviously correlated, because that's what SAT is essentially testing for. High SAT scores on the other hand allow no finer categorization than "this person is at least no retarded".

>> No.6627350

>>6627345
>chick
>her
You already fell for it

>> No.6627353

>>6627350
w/e, I'm off now anyway

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6627386

>>6627325
Most high-IQ are males.

>> No.6629079

>>6627311
all majors are above the average IQ on average, fortunately

>> No.6629088

What will happen when more females enter physics? Will that drag the average IQ of physics students down by a lot/

>> No.6629098

>>6627386
source?

>> No.6629119

Were do female intelligent college students go?
Honest question.

>> No.6629126

>>6629119

Physics and astronomy. Isn't that obvious?

>> No.6629132

>>6629126
But there are way less women than men. Where do intelligent women go?

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6629138

>>6627386

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6629145

>>6627311
>So how did /sci/ receive this? I wasn't here when this thing happened.

Here's a better pic, showing each dot + major.

>> No.6629157

>>6629119

In undergrad, probably chemistry and biology. In grad school, definitely organic/biological chemistry and neuroscience. Srsly, hot chicks flock to neuro, first, and then chem. I was a physics/math double in undergrad, tech'd for a few years before going back for biophysics grad school. At every med school or university I've worked at, neuroscience labs had the hottest chicks, no doubt. There's always a few smokes in the synthetic orgo labs and maybe some in the structural (lots of women have been big in crystallography) or mechanistic groups.

>> No.6629164

Sci, do a quick calc

Im about to be Mechatronics student, we have total of 5 chicks (if you can call them that) in our class

Whats the average IQ

>> No.6629169

>>6629157
Thanks for answering.
I'm at Civil Engineering, and we have a couple of chicks, not many.
I have to say, some of those girls are fiercely intelligent and some are a totally dumb. I have no data, but it feels like I'm average while with girls they are either intelligent or dumb.

I don't know if I'm making any sense.

>> No.6629170

>>6629119
⇒Were do female intelligent college students go?

I did two BSc degrees simultaneously in math and physics. My current research is highly interdisciplinary.

>> No.6629171

>>6629164
if you want the mean of just your class then it's still 100.

>> No.6629175

Or maybe growing up in western culture causes less intelligent women to go for a worthless degree and hope to find a job, as opposed to less intelligent men going for menial work and education for jobs such as car mechanic. Or maybe it's due to an invisible dwarf messing with IQ test results for university-educated females. You can't just provide one hypothesis ("women are dumber") and work on any scrap of information that backs it up.
And no, Occam's razor doesn't apply to the first provided example.

>> No.6629178

>>6629171 contd.

... just like the average IQ of all Mensa members is 100. Don't listen to statisticians talking bullshit about sampling bias.

>> No.6629183

>iq

top kek. it's not even science faggots.

>> No.6629189

>>6629178

How the fuck does mensa have a mean of 100
I thought they had a low of 120-130 something

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6629192

>>6627311
>iq

>> No.6629196

>>6629145

>tfw physics master race

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6629304

>>6629145
>mathematical sciences
>mathematics is science

>> No.6629317

>>6629145
why is chemical engineering higher than chemistry?
one is a fundamental science while other is just manual labor

also
>religion and theory + hgher than anything
wut?