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General Board / Re: Are lawyers smarter than doctors? Than scientists? Than engineers?« on: May 04, 2009, 10:31:08 PM »Good. Take your evil bastard ass elsewhere, StevePiates. You are a monster and I hate you. We all hate you. I didn't post the graph, I just relinked to it. 22
General Board / Re: Are lawyers smarter than doctors? Than scientists? Than engineers?« on: May 04, 2009, 06:30:11 PM »Steve: For your safety and the safety of others, please leave this thread. Or I'm gonna have to get vicious. Well, since there's really nothing more to say on the subject of intelligence distribution amongst the professions, now that an official graph has been posted, I don't really have anything else to say in this thread. 23
General Board / Re: Are lawyers smarter than doctors? Than scientists? Than engineers?« on: May 04, 2009, 04:00:15 PM »
Something tells me that PILO is in the sub100 end of the attorney distribution.
And by something I mean PILO's last two posts. 24
General Board / Re: Are lawyers smarter than doctors? Than scientists? Than engineers?« on: May 03, 2009, 06:41:18 PM »
This link supports my original argument about mean and range. Look at the distribution difference between MDs and Attorneys. 25
General Board / Re: Are lawyers smarter than doctors? Than scientists? Than engineers?« on: May 01, 2009, 10:19:27 PM »
There is a large range of intellectual ability among all of those groups. People are smart in different ways.
If I had to guess and make horrible generalizations, I'd put money on "scientists" having the smartest people in absolute terms (Stephen Hawking), but also a very wide intelligence range; doctors* having the highest mean and median IQ; and attorneys and engineers being roughly equivalent in both distribution of talent and intelligence, just in completely opposite areas. There are certainly a lot of attorneys out there who are smarter than doctors, but there are a lot of doctors out there smarter than attorneys. *MDs and DOs only. 26
General Board / Re: ABA Accreditation = Saturation or Protectionism of the Legal Market« on: April 29, 2009, 06:50:33 PM »
Always! 27
General Board / Re: ABA Accreditation = Saturation or Protectionism of the Legal Market« on: April 29, 2009, 06:12:55 PM »
Nope, I don't retract it, I'm just informing your understanding of it in context. You can never have to many lawyers. But only lawyers who can pass the bar. If you have 100% of the population able to pass a bar that is sufficiently difficult as to ensure competent legal services, then so be it! 
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General Board / Re: ABA Accreditation = Saturation or Protectionism of the Legal Market« on: April 29, 2009, 05:02:39 PM »
Then raise the Bar so to speak. J.D.s are worthless outside of their ability to help you land a job. Bar admission should be the final arbiter, and if too many people are passing the bar and harming consumers, then raise the bar requirements. On a completely different tract, plenty of damage done by attorneys at the top end of the spectrum as well as the bottom end. 29
General Board / Re: ABA Accreditation = Saturation or Protectionism of the Legal Market« on: April 29, 2009, 02:57:41 PM »What exactly would be a "failed lawyer?" In my mind, one who cannot make a living practicing law. 30
California Western / Re: Cal Western or Thomas J…« on: April 29, 2009, 02:56:42 PM »
oh just for the hell of it, what do you guys make of this recurrent rumor?
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