Does anyone know what the average IQ of PhD students is? Mine is 117. I'm not sure this is high enough. Can I go to grad school?
Does anyone know what the average IQ of PhD students is? Mine is 117. I'm not sure this is high enough. Can I go to grad school?
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102
Which is 30 points higher than the average registered nurse.
Judging from your forum name, most probably not.
Probably pretty low. You'd have to be an idiot to think getting a PhD was a good idea. I take that back, it's actually probably pretty high. Thinking getting a a PhD is a good idea is generally crazy, not stupid. One can be both.
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In layman's terms; or rather, in letsrun terms: right you're question the write way.
xenonscreams wrote:
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This.
Usually PhD students are not very smart, and the smart ones drop out, because the nature of PhD programs are not doing smart things, but by supporting crazy studies that "prove" dumb ass professor's pet projects. To do that, you have to either be a really dumb person, or else curtail any intelligence that you previously had, i.e. the same thing, and therefore not very smart.
You do understand that no Ph.D. programs ask for IQ tests, right?
You wrote, "because the nature of PhD programs are not doing smart things"--fabulous prose. By your own logic you must be enrolled in dozens of doctoral programs.
Not very smart wrote:
Usually PhD students are not very smart, and the smart ones drop out, because the nature of PhD programs are not doing smart things, but by supporting crazy studies that "prove" dumb ass professor's pet projects. To do that, you have to either be a really dumb person, or else curtail any intelligence that you previously had, i.e. the same thing, and therefore not very smart.
Just understand that you don't need as high GRE scores in computer science as in the sciences and humanities/social sciences at top schools:
http://magoosh.com/gre/2013/gre-scores-for-top-universities/
The PhD system is a Ponzi scheme. It's all about cheap labor in exchange for false hope and hubris. You'd be better off becoming an electrician.
it depends on the program....PhD in theoretical physics or PhD in communications...HUGE variance across fields.
with this said: beyond some minimum, it's entirely motivation...
recent PhD wrote:
it depends on the program....PhD in theoretical physics or PhD in communications...HUGE variance across fields.
with this said: beyond some minimum, it's entirely motivation...
And organization and luck.
Very, very low- the same holds true for the average social IQ of a PhD student.
MDs, JDs, and PhDs average 125+ for their IQ. Obviously lower IQ people make up some of this group but you will be below average.
What is the deal with this forum and IQ? I got my PhD in engineering 20 years ago, have been in academia since, spend most my working time with PhD-ed scientists and engineers and in that time I have never once had a conversation about IQ and am pretty sure I have never heard IQ mentioned. Not once, ever.
Yet it's always a topic on this board. Is is just one troll who keeps bringing it up, or are there some people who actually think about such things?
Post Hole Digger wrote:
Yet it's always a topic on this board. Is is just one troll who keeps bringing it up, or are there some people who actually think about such things?
It's one troll. I wish this weren't the case but when you read Letsrun as much as I do, you start to recognize the consistent syntax and phrasing in troll posts on consistent themes originating from burner accounts. For example, that's how I realized (as others have as well) that N-Z Guy is the same troll obsessed with California, infantry service, Asians at elite universities, etc.
This particular troll is likely a PhD student floundering in his (and it's certainly a man) program who wants others to tell him being a successful graduate student has nothing to do with IQ and his failures don't mean he's unintelligent.
Garf wrote:
Post Hole Digger wrote:Yet it's always a topic on this board. Is is just one troll who keeps bringing it up, or are there some people who actually think about such things?
It's one troll. I wish this weren't the case but when you read Letsrun as much as I do, you start to recognize the consistent syntax and phrasing in troll posts on consistent themes originating from burner accounts. For example, that's how I realized (as others have as well) that N-Z Guy is the same troll obsessed with California, infantry service, Asians at elite universities, etc.
This particular troll is likely a PhD student floundering in his (and it's certainly a man) program who wants others to tell him being a successful graduate student has nothing to do with IQ and his failures don't mean he's unintelligent.
Well done! This honestly just about sums up the entirety of LetsRun in one post.
sidestepper wrote:
recent PhD wrote:it depends on the program....PhD in theoretical physics or PhD in communications...HUGE variance across fields.
with this said: beyond some minimum, it's entirely motivation...
And organization and luck.
And usually alcohol during the writing of the thesis.