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The fact that every discipline uses the same test for admissions says more about the quality of academia than the scores.
At good schools, the GRE is just a formality, especially the general test. Research experience and recommendations are more important. Top math and CS departments don't really care about the GRE general at all.
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I talked to the dept head in aero at MIT during the 90s and he told me that the verbal section of the GRE was the only correlation he'd seen to success.
Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to form-fit the ETS's method of verbal testing. In my own experience the verbal section of the GRE was entirely nonsensical. The vocabulary was difficult and exactly the type of vocabulary I would use if i…
Once in a while you meet someone else like yourself and experience pleasure communicating at high baud.
Is it me, or is education being on the bottom uplifting? I feel like we'd have a serious problem if it were on top.
Economics scored #4 and it's not a science. That blows away any credibility this might have.
Economics does have equations and an analytical approach, but its empirical foundations and usefulness are quite dubious, compared to say, civil engineering, or medicine. I would think that medicine would require a very high degree of empirical rigor, and it must be put into practice every day.
This isn't a list of what occupations are useful or even intellectually honest. It's ordered by complexity of abstraction.
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Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to form-fit the ETS's method of verbal testing. In my own experience the verbal section of the GRE was entirely nonsensical. The vocabulary was difficult and exactly the type of vocabulary I would use if i…
"If the goal of communication is having other people understand you, why would you deal in words that are notable precisely because they are difficult to understand?" Once in a while you meet someone else like yourself and experience pleasure communicating at high baud.
Verbal and Quantitative have vastly different distributions. Simply adding them together favors those in quantitative fields. I think that the smaller variance in verbal scores should have tipped him off.
Normalizing the distributions would not change the rankings by much.
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Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to form-fit the ETS's method of verbal testing. In my own experience the verbal section of the GRE was entirely nonsensical. The vocabulary was difficult and exactly the type of vocabulary I would use if i…
"I heard a rumor" I'm a counterexample to the rumor.
Worth mentioning that my life doesn't correlate to success in any meaningful way, except that I keep making decisions which make me happy if poor.
What's the analytic scale mean? I have an analytical writing score but it's on a 0-6 scale. 800 quant, 710 verbal. And 46 years old when I took it. ;-)
In the past (around the turn of the century), the analytical section consisted of logic and reasoning problems. It was probably similar to some of the LSAT questions. They converted it to a writing section relatively recently
People are moving standardized tests away from being iq tests, for some reason. Why don't they just replace the SAT and GRE with a real IQ test?
Interesting: Philosophy scored higher on Verbal than English/Language.