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Comment by Jblx2

7 hours ago

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...

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tptacek  7 hours ago

Doesn't this basically make the argument I'm making, that there's no well-defined band of IQ test scores for different professions?

  • Jblx2  6 hours ago

    I'm not seeing any other posts of yours on this comment thread. Maybe you forgot to hit the "reply" button (or accidently outed an alt?) My only point was that majormajor saying that programmers might only be roughly the same smartness as electrical or mechanical engineers would put them comfortably above the average person.