Graduates of elite law schools are mostly “intellectually gifted people who haven’t developed very strong technical ability.” How do you think most of them would achieve better life outcomes by developing such an ability? Keep in mind that most of them are relatively much better at verbal and social stuff than math.
Yes, that might be a good nontechnical counterpart. I grew up in San Francisco and live in the Bay Area where the wealthy / privileged people tend to be in tech, and my perceptions are correspondingly skewed. I added a footnote linking your comment.
You could include most branches of engineering as well, not just electrical. Or at the very least certain subsets of these branches, e.g., fluid dynamicists in mechanical and aerospace engineering tend to be no different intellectually from physicists, in my experience. (Probably largely because they are basically physicists. Physics as a field has neglected classical mechanics lately, so if fluids are your interest, you won’t get a degree in physics.)
Yeah, the reason why I didn’t include engineering is that it seems that most engineers are in administrative-like roles in practice, but I’d definitely include the ones who do research and development in the reference class that I had in mind.
Well law includes a lot of logic, in the form of verbal reasoning. Bertrand Russell formalised how math can be reduced to logic...kinda. I pray for the haters of a lawyer who can substantiate his reasoning with hard data. Imagine a lawyer who can substantiate an argument for legalising assisted suicide by referring to quality adjusted life years and grounding his/her reasoning in some kind of felsific calculus.
On second thoughts, the poor reception that hedonic calculus (according to that one Charles Dickins book at least) got from the world is evidence against this line of thinking.
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edit 1: evidence that lawyers aren’t great at quantitative evidence and by extension, some applications of logic.
Graduates of elite law schools are mostly “intellectually gifted people who haven’t developed very strong technical ability.” How do you think most of them would achieve better life outcomes by developing such an ability? Keep in mind that most of them are relatively much better at verbal and social stuff than math.
Yes, that might be a good nontechnical counterpart. I grew up in San Francisco and live in the Bay Area where the wealthy / privileged people tend to be in tech, and my perceptions are correspondingly skewed. I added a footnote linking your comment.
You could include most branches of engineering as well, not just electrical. Or at the very least certain subsets of these branches, e.g., fluid dynamicists in mechanical and aerospace engineering tend to be no different intellectually from physicists, in my experience. (Probably largely because they are basically physicists. Physics as a field has neglected classical mechanics lately, so if fluids are your interest, you won’t get a degree in physics.)
Yeah, the reason why I didn’t include engineering is that it seems that most engineers are in administrative-like roles in practice, but I’d definitely include the ones who do research and development in the reference class that I had in mind.
Well law includes a lot of logic, in the form of verbal reasoning. Bertrand Russell formalised how math can be reduced to logic...kinda. I pray for the haters of a lawyer who can substantiate his reasoning with hard data. Imagine a lawyer who can substantiate an argument for legalising assisted suicide by referring to quality adjusted life years and grounding his/her reasoning in some kind of felsific calculus.
On second thoughts, the poor reception that hedonic calculus (according to that one Charles Dickins book at least) got from the world is evidence against this line of thinking.
:/
edit 1: evidence that lawyers aren’t great at quantitative evidence and by extension, some applications of logic.