Comment by Jblx2
14 hours ago
>Writing code doesn't have a notably higher (if at all higher, vs lower!) IQ requirement compared to some of the basic components of EE
Average IQ of Electrical Engineers: 121
https://www.iqcareerlab.com/tools/iq-for-profession/electric...
...which is the top 10% of the population.
Do you believe these numbers? Is there a cite somewhere in the literature for valid, proctored IQ tests being given to representative samples of different professions for these kinds of comparisons? The link you've provided is to a company selling online IQ tests.
Is the argument that electrical and mechanical engineers are not smarter than the average person? How about figure 8 (PDF page 86) of:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120905095856/http://www.ssc.wi...
Doesn't this basically make the argument I'm making, that there's no well-defined band of IQ test scores for different professions?
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