A couple of comments here.
- Health professionals are a diverse lot, ranging from the ultra-bright to the ultra-caring. The caring are generally not the same people as the bright. Lumping them together does not work
- American college students should have a mean IQ one standard deviation above the mean. In the rest of the world, it should be two standard deviations above the mean, and therefore mainly men. When I was a kid, it was two SD above the mean — you had to pass school certificate then university entrance, and both were normed so half the candidates failed.
- Regardless of this, the lack of intelligence in social workers should scare all sane parents
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Hat tip Judgy Bitch.
Why be afraid of the social work majors? They get employed by the state, and the lack of intelligence, combined with statutory power, destroys lives.
UPDATE
All this has one major consequence: a degree now symbolizes little. And is discounted.
The Education Bubble is driven by a combination of cheap money and second-best tests for IQ, stamina, work ethic, etc. that translate into talent and employment success. The institutional resistance and legal obstacles to the use of IQ tests has a lot to do with this phenomenon. Now, certain employers are starting to realize how they should just test for talent, rather than relying on our increasingly unserious, expensive, and mind-numbing exercises in credentialism that masquerade as true education.
I predict we have reached the high water mark of education being a synonym for respectability and talent, and that in 20 or 30 years, rates of attendance and matriculation will be much lower. And society will be better off!
The university should be a sheltered workshop for the nerdish intelligent subgroup of society, not a credentialling machine for the bulk of humanity. In the former role, true scholarship can flourish, in the latter role frauds can easily take over because the pool is too shallow and depth of understanding suspect. This is less a problem in the harder sciences and engineering, where you cannot fake results: it has destroyed the scholarly life in the arts. The sooner the universities reclaim this role, and the smaller enrollment this entails, the better.
The 1.2 Trillion USD bubble ain’t going to be pretty.
Well, if the state shrinks these empowered women will be unemployable.
Holy cow, they’re worse than teachers. Thousands of them with empathy, but without the ability to follow a train of logic. What could possibly go wrong?
I knew a lot of people in college that went into education or social work when they figured out they couldn’t hack it in engineering.
IQ tests are stupid, they give value where value should not be given and encourage pride and competition. I prefer classifying people by their giftings; trade schools and apprenticeships would be so much better than colleges.
The problem with social workers isn’t their lack of intelligence, it’s their lack of a solid foundation. They have put children and victims as the center of importance when authority and obedience are a more wise choice. But our culture hates the idea of obedience, because that suggests the existence of a Ruler.