Your comment seems to make many good points. However, I identified a few evident falsehoods in areas I know something about, which leads me to suspect a similar laxity with the truth in areas I know less about.
For instance:
This means someone who wants to practice Law or Marketing needs to go $120,000 in debt and waste four years of their life getting a degree in Art History to present at their interview.
If you want to practice law, you’re best served by studying lab sciences, math, or government in undergrad. (Those are the undergraduate majors with the highest admittance rate to law school.) Then you go to law school, which is where you incur the goatloads of debt.
The fact that you can’t get admitted to the bar (in most of the U.S.) without going to law school is not a result of anyone’s ideology about intelligence. This policy change was adopted explicitly by states in response to pressure by the American Bar Association beginning in the 1890s. IQ testing didn’t even exist then. (And for what it’s worth, scientific racism was at that time deemed progressive.)
Your comment seems to make many good points. However, I identified a few evident falsehoods in areas I know something about, which leads me to suspect a similar laxity with the truth in areas I know less about.
For instance:
If you want to practice law, you’re best served by studying lab sciences, math, or government in undergrad. (Those are the undergraduate majors with the highest admittance rate to law school.) Then you go to law school, which is where you incur the goatloads of debt.
The fact that you can’t get admitted to the bar (in most of the U.S.) without going to law school is not a result of anyone’s ideology about intelligence. This policy change was adopted explicitly by states in response to pressure by the American Bar Association beginning in the 1890s. IQ testing didn’t even exist then. (And for what it’s worth, scientific racism was at that time deemed progressive.)
Does this control for different average IQ (or SAT, if you prefer) among different majors?