RobinHanson comments on The Academic Epistemology Cross Section: Who Cares More About Status? - Less Wrong
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It is unlikely to be exactly the same, but it seems hard to measure the differences. Fields in which academics are more often hired not for their prestige but for their directly useful knowledge tend to be less prestigious fields I think, so I'd guess that might be one clue, but a weak one.