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65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: gwern 10 April 2013 07:20:34PM 10 points [-]

I'll put it this way: in the average GRE scores by intended field, education ranks below philosophy & STEM in every subtest, and various forms of education rank very low (early childhood education is, out of 50 groups, second from the bottom in 2 subtests and fifth from the bottom in the last subtest).

Comment author: buybuydandavis 13 April 2013 10:32:47AM 1 point [-]

Those who can't do...

Another category that jumped out at me - see all the public/education/business administration near the bottom. These are the people running institutions. The world is the way it is for a reason.