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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]are you comparing the smartest people in each field?  Or asking overall which field is more likely to be attracted to smart people?

because, several of the smartest people I have run across are lawyers.  but there is no doubt the field as a whole probably just passes average.  barely, when you consider all the people out there doing divorces and traffic tickets and scamming immigrants.   doctors overall are much smarter, but seemingly very few geniuses.  Some.  I think a lot of people in media are bright (and interesting!) but no geniuses.  At all, as far as I can tell.  Academia probably all very smart but it seems most of them are convinced they are geniuses.   And, um, a few probably are.

I know less about straight science and tech fields.  I assume the space industry if full of serious geniuses!  But heck if I know.  I know a couple of software engineers who are freaking brilliant.[/quote]

This is spot on. People here are also conflating the intelligence it takes to solve a sector's problems (highest, I assume, in STEM) with which seetor has the smartest people (which, assuming we're talking about smartest in each field and not average intelligence by field, is probably law). [/quote]

So one thing STEM teaches you to do is look for data.  Here you go.  Unlike most lawyers are physicists in undergrad, above is unlikely to be true.

https://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-college-major/[/quote]

I explicitly said "assuming we're talking about smartest in each field and not average intelligence by field." It doesn't take a STEM major to realize your data concerns the latter. [/quote]

So what data do you have to back up your assertion that the smartest lawyer is  more intelligent than the smartest physicist or engineer? Is that really your claim??[/quote]

I'm casually posting on an anonymous internet message board; I don't have data. But a high proportion of people with the highest GPAs from the most elite undergrads go to law school, whereas STEM majors are a self-selected group of twenty year olds with a specific academic interest.

To be clear, I bet STEM majors are, on average, smarter than lawyers. But I bet a bigger chunk of the smartest college students, at least historically, have chosen law. [/quote]

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