kitchen table math, the sequel: GRE scores in 28 fields of study

Thursday, November 6, 2008

GRE scores in 28 fields of study

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from Greg Mankiw's blog

What is "Public Administration," exactly?
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4 comments:

Doug Sundseth said...

I'm shocked at the position of educators on that list.

...

They're not last!

November 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM
SteveH said...

It's interesting to see the big drop in "Quantitative" in the middle of the chart. (right at English Lit.) I would expect to see some sort of reverse effect with Verbal, but I don't. I was surprised that the technical fields did so well. The Verbal ranking of Education is below all but one technical field ranking.

[Catherine, notice that Architecture is way down the list. Architecture in not a department in engineering.]


The "nerd" effect is not because the techies are so backwards verbally. It's because they are so advanced quantitatively. For an example, see the new MIT Splash catalog. I think you still have time to register.

http://esp.mit.edu

Students in grades 7-12 can take a variety of short (student-run) courses over two days (November 22 and 23, 2008). My son has been salivating over the course catalog, especially the Rubik's Cube classes.

You can also find courses like:

C1740: How to be Evil: Using language and math to know everything about everyone.

H1559: Urban Orienteering at MIT

H1573: (Beginners) Crash Course in Swing Dancing

H1706: The Tasty Goodness of Juice

H1835: The Art of Etch-A-Sketch

H1973: ULTIMATE Wikiracing

L1774: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Amusing!

L1950: How to Order Lunch in Athens

M1583: Hyperbolic Functions

M1655: Graphing by Hand (without a graphing calculator)

M1776: Why are Circles so Cool?

M1985: Calculus: It's all Just One Theorem

M2002: How to be very very likely to win money off your friends

M2003: How to definitely win money off your friends

P1591: Advanced Jazz Improvization

P1718: Viennese Waltzing

P1936: Dancing with Glowsticks for Novices

S1656: Fun with the Periodic Table

S1855: Maxwell's Equations ... Derived

S2026: Your Intuition Sucks
(my son wants to take this course too)

S1536: 49 Reasons why California is better than your state

S1677: World Domination in Theory and Practice

S1845: How to cope with being a geek

======> Note this one!

S1993: Mathematics Education in the United States

"How should teachers teach? What, if anything, should tests test? We'll try to understand these questions through our own experiences learning math in school, and by studying debates that are ongoing in the education community, about topics such as the "Math Wars", the No Child Left Behind Act, unequal access to good teaching, and what it means to attract the best teachers."

Instructor: Daniel Zaharopol
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And many, many more classes.

November 7, 2008 at 7:24 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

They're not last!

lollllll

I'm not gonna tell you what my Ph.D. is in.

November 9, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Crimson Wife said...

A master's in public administration is like an MBA only geared towards managing in the public sector rather than in industry. My DH did a joint program at Harvard where he got degrees from both the business school and the school of government. While his classmates at both schools were bright, let's just say I'm not surprised to see that the business students outscored the public admin ones ;-)

November 13, 2008 at 4:36 PM

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