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I think what we may see first is further segregation of "useful" and "useless" degree holders into career tracks. So, if you want a degree in, say history, then you don't get as good of opportunities as the chemistry major, regardless of the field.
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Further segregation? How can it get further segregated than it is currently? The best paying jobs are pretty thoroughly screened via major/school/gpa.</p>
<p>I'd have to agree that occupations that actually really on knowledge learned in college already screen pretty thoroughly by major field. I think Murray's concern is for occupations that really, truly don't even require college degrees but for which useless college degrees are sometimes used as a screening tool.</p>
<p>Could the IQ pundits help me out? I have a 138 verbal IQ and only a 110 non verbal IQ on the Stanford-Binet (professionally tested). What does this mean for me? Am I doomed to a life of writing poetry and working at Starbucks?</p>
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Am I doomed to a life of writing poetry and working at Starbucks?
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<p>I doubt it. But maybe you like writing poetry. Anyway, IQ is nowhere near that deterministic. Do you have a college degree, or are you still seeking one, or have you found a way to make a living without one?</p>
<p>No you could just as well be doomed to a life writing poetry, raising trouble on two continents, have others writing poetry about you and then die because you forgot to dress properly when visiting Charon Aquitaine. </p>
<p>Or you could spend your life writing poetry, and writing books about the best manner to place metallic pointed objects into the bodies of others. </p>
<p>Or you could spend your life writing poetry whilst having serial romantic liaisons (which tend not to end well) raising trouble with the Pope, and die of a seeming combination of gout and paranoia. </p>
<p>Or you could be writing poetry, be one of the designers of one of the world's best known buildings and have a turtle named after you. </p>
<p>Or spend your life writing poetry, and ruling China. </p>
<p>Or you could be writing poetry just before you fly into a maelstrom of anti aircraft fire and finish your mission for god and country...</p>
<p>As token adult already indicated IQ tests or categories are not rigidly deterministic.</p>
<p>I will have a BA in economics from McGill at the end of this semester. I've taken stats, intro linear algebra, clac, micro theory, etc.
I do think my low non-verbal IQ explains my inability to rotate 3 dimensional objects in my head, as well as my poor pool-playing ability. </p>
<p>I have a very intuitive grasp of probability theory, though.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, I scored a 700 on the math SAT 1 and only a 650 on the verbal. Another interesting tid bit: my non verbal IQ rose from 90 to 110 after receiving CBT for my obsessive compulsive disorder. That's almost 1 and half standard deviations. Supposedly, I can continue to raise my non verbal IQ to within range of my verbal IQ through developing strategies for organizing visual information. I don't know if the test admin. was just BSing me.</p>
<p>college is over rated.</p>