What a revelation! I can't wait to tell it to my lawyer friend who hasn't taken a math class since his sophomore year of highschool and makes $145k/yr three years removed from an English degree.
Won't his face be red!
Taking more math in school will raise your income
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Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#22I just graduated from University, and I intuitively believed that taking more math would make me a smarter person. So although my major was Psych, I took courses in Analysis, Algebra, Discrete, and Number Theory. Of course, potential employers have neither seem to have given a fuck nor realized just how difficult Analysis was, but whatever- I even implemented the thinking style I picked up in Analysis, such as the no…
What did you expect to do after graduation with your major in psychology? What are some of the most interesting things you learned in your psychology courses? (I ask, because I am writing a working paper in psychology--about IQ testing--just now.)
Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#23Really? I have a bachelor in applied mathematics, I like math and algorithm, but when i was interviewed with a software engineer position, i had been asked all kinds of c++ programming questions, and these "do you have experience on this and that". I had to spend extra time on these things, i just felt why i didn't directly get into computer science program and spending more time on these detailed engineering things at school
Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#24Alternatively smart people and/or hard working people make more money, they also tend to take "hard" courses such as advanced math while in highschool. No causation required.
Individual effort is controlled for in the study discussed: "each extra required maths course raised the annual income of black males by 15%". Of course, this study still doesn't make a strong case for causation -- the number of required math courses in a school is likely correlated with school quality, which is likely correlated with other socioeconomic factors.
Huh? How do you infer that individual effort was controlled for by quoting "each extra required maths course raised the annual income of black males by 15%"?
Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#25good old 6th-grader-quality research.
correlation mistaken for causation...so frustratingly pervasive in our society.
Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#26I just graduated from University, and I intuitively believed that taking more math would make me a smarter person. So although my major was Psych, I took courses in Analysis, Algebra, Discrete, and Number Theory. Of course, potential employers have neither seem to have given a fuck nor realized just how difficult Analysis was, but whatever- I even implemented the thinking style I picked up in Analysis, such as the no…
There is a big difference between majoring in Psych. while taking a lot of Math courses and being a major or specialist in Mathematics.
So on one hand employers should probably take your courses into account slightly on the other I agree with them.
Did you get a BA or BSc?
Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#27I just graduated from University, and I intuitively believed that taking more math would make me a smarter person. So although my major was Psych, I took courses in Analysis, Algebra, Discrete, and Number Theory. Of course, potential employers have neither seem to have given a fuck nor realized just how difficult Analysis was, but whatever- I even implemented the thinking style I picked up in Analysis, such as the no…
There is a big difference between majoring in Psych. while taking a lot of Math courses and being a major or specialist in Mathematics. So on one hand employers should probably take your courses into account slightly on the other I agree with them. Did you get a BA or BSc?
You're a meanie.
Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#28I just graduated from University, and I intuitively believed that taking more math would make me a smarter person. So although my major was Psych, I took courses in Analysis, Algebra, Discrete, and Number Theory. Of course, potential employers have neither seem to have given a fuck nor realized just how difficult Analysis was, but whatever- I even implemented the thinking style I picked up in Analysis, such as the no…
What did you expect to do after graduation with your major in psychology? What are some of the most interesting things you learned in your psychology courses? (I ask, because I am writing a working paper in psychology--about IQ testing--just now.)
Favorite topics: working memory; attention; instrumental conditioning; emotional regulation.
Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Individual effort is controlled for in the study discussed: "each extra required maths course raised the annual income of black males by 15%". Of course, this study still doesn't make a strong case for causation -- the number of required math courses in a school is likely correlated with school quality, which is likely correlated with other socioeconomic factors.
Huh? How do you infer that individual effort was controlled for by quoting "each extra required maths course raised the annual income of black males by 15%"?
"each extra -required- maths course" -- as in required by the school. This is also made clear in the linked paper: http://www.columbia.edu/~jg2394/papers/jobmarket.pdf
Re: Taking more math in school will raise your income
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
What did you expect to do after graduation with your major in psychology? What are some of the most interesting things you learned in your psychology courses? (I ask, because I am writing a working paper in psychology--about IQ testing--just now.)
Favorite topics: working memory; attention; instrumental conditioning; emotional regulation.
I'm very interested in working memory and attention, and know very little of the literature on those subjects. I'll look for your comments on posts about those issues.