C’mon guys, it’s clear he is assembling an army of highly intelligent cyborgs to take over the world. Shall we alert the mounties?
We don’t know whose side the RCMP will be on.
That’s just it though; this is exactly the kind of thinking that predominates in most of this website. There’s a sorting algorithm of top colleges and top majors, where SAT/ACT scores are the only things that matter. McKinsey and BCG are being waved around in the same way that high school students and college applicants use the phrase “Ivy League” as a way to validate any kind of practice or standard as being universally valuable and correct. There’s nothing unusual about this debate; it’s the same debate that you can have in any other thread about colleges.
I mentioned that Penn State was popular with recruiters in the post you replied to, so I agree that Penn State is a desirable college for recruiting . My point was you previously posted that SAT score is essentially intelligence, so high scores on SAT type standardized tests should be an important factor in hiring decisions, more important than major; and posted links showing high school students who intended to major in math or physics had a higher average SAT than high school students with the other listed intended majors by a small margin (for example, average 570s per section math/physics majors vs 550s per section for social science majors). So the assumption is your goal in recruiting at colleges with the largest number of math and physics majors is to get high scoring students. If this is your goal, then there are a lot more effective ways to do accomplish this goal than looking at the number of math and physics majors. While Penn State is popular with recruiters, it is popular for different reasons, and the overwhelming majority of companies use a very different system that you described in their hiring decisions.
lol that video was pretty funny <3 buzzfeed
I was unnecessarily provocative yesterday. Using the word “delicious” was not appropriate. My apologies.
You know the Mounties always get their man, don’t you?
In all seriousness, highly intelligent cyborgs remind me of Stephen Hawking’s recent warning:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/05/stephen-hawkings-ominous-warning-about-robots/
Volkswagen is already starting to replace part of their workforce with robots:
http://www.manufacturingglobal.com/peopleskills/170/Volkswagen-to-replace-human-workforce-with-robots-in-Germany-to-meet-demand
I don’t care what their PR people say, I am concerned.
You are right and I admitted so to another poster in an earlier post.