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  • #46
    Originally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
    .01% = 145 IQ

    That's the average for a physics professor, btw

    I actually got that wrong (my gut put it around 155 points), so I feel both worse and better. Also can you give a cite for the average physics professor IQ? It seems to make sense, considering the average physics PHD student has an IQ of 130.
    Last edited by Heraclitus; October 1, 2010, 14:24.
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    • #47
      No cite. It's a number that stuck in my head from a while ago...
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      • #48
        There was some report by Hsu which was about students in the field. http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2005/12...s-them-in.html

        I also remember 140, but not any other cite.

        JM
        Last edited by Jon Miller; October 1, 2010, 14:36.
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        • #49
          So they found a pony in your hotel room. And got just sooooooooo conservative about it.
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          • #50
            Originally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
            .01% = 145 IQ

            That's the average for a physics professor, btw
            Wouldn't 145 IQ be closer to top .3%?

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            • #51
              Originally posted by gribbler View Post
              Wouldn't 145 IQ be closer to top .3%?
              I looked it up... 145 IQ would be 99.75% percentile on the Stanford-Binet scale.
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              • #52
                Originally posted by Jon Miller View Post
                There was some report by Hsu which was about students in the field. http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2005/12...s-them-in.html

                I also remember 140, but not any other cite.

                JM
                That is where I got the 130 reference for physics PhD students.

                There is much concern among physicists that our field is no longer getting the same share of the brightest students as in the glory days (e.g., during the cold war). I was pleased to find here that average GRE-general scores in physics PhD programs were still the highest as of 2002, with math and CS close behind. According to these tables, the average IQ of a physics PhD student is about 130. For comparison, english/literature PhD students average about 120 and sociology PhD students only 115. (115 is the average for college students in general, so the typical sociology TA is no smarter than the students in his or her class ;-) Amazingly, the average grad student in education (109) is below the average for college students!
                Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                • #53
                  Assuming normal distribution with the median at 100 and a stdv of 15 I get a one in a thousand result for a IQ score of 145.
                  Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                  The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                  The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                  • #54
                    Yeah, missed a zero. Remember it's the one-sided distribution...
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                    • #55
                      Eughhh...I think I want to be sick. The only thing you rank in a high percentile of KH is self-publicists...
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                      • #56
                        And penis size.
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                        • #57
                          My penis is too big to fail
                          Blah

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                          • #58
                            Similarly, my penis is too big to flail!
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                            • #59
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                              • #60
                                Was I implying that he is in the 99.999 percentile of penis size or that his penis is 0.001% the size of a normal one? I just don't know.
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