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According to Discover Magazine (not just me): "Philosophers are the smartest humanists..."

 This one is making the rounds on twitter (thx to @profron and @christianmunthe), but it is worth sharing here.  Discover magazine plotted GRE scores by intended major, looking for correlations between the three tested areas.

Quantitative v. Verbal:

Notice Philosophy WAY out on the Verbal line, the only humanity over average in quantitative.

Here's verbal v. writing (brief commentary: why is the ETS testing both of these skills if they are so highly correlated?):

 Yup, that's Philosophy, kicking English's ass.

And finally, writing versus quantitative - pretty much the same as the first, but further highlighting Philosophy as the outlier in the academy:

Now I'm not willing to claim that the GRE is a valid operationalization of the concept of 'smart', and hence say that Philosophers are the smartest of the humanists. But Discovery Magazine did. So it must be true. So there.

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