Science - Beer = Publications?

Sciencey beer.

A study has come out from Thomas Grim, an ornithologist at Palacky University, Czech Republic, stating that the more beer a scientist drinks, the less publications they will publish.

I am not a big fan of this study.

The New York Times also published an article about this study and I think that Dr. Mike Webster, an ornithologist from the Washington State University has it right. He says,

“Maybe those with poor publication records are drowning their sorrows.”

I hope this is the case.

There also appears to be a correlation between IQ and drinking wine vs beer. A Danish study shows that wine drinkers have higher IQs than beer drinkers.

I am okay with this since I enjoy wine and beer. I wonder if that just means I have an average IQ?

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how smart is your job?

per usual, i found something online that made me think and thus i will pass it on to you. this time it was about the average IQ of different occupations. the data was taken from a paper by Robert M. Hauser (Meritocracy, cognitive ability, and the sources of occupational success.pdf). i found the chart, which was made by Rodrigo de la Jara, to be very interesting.


It was no surprise that doctors, both MD and PhD, were at the top of the list, but what did surprise me was the limited range of IQ throughout the entire list. the range of IQ (for the 50th percentile) was only between 90 and 120 and if you remove the bottom three and top three occupations it become closer to 94 to 114. now if you think about the fact that the average IQ is 100 it appears that most occupations are within reach for anyone with an IQ of 90 (below average). i only counted 13 of the occupations which did not cover an IQ of 90. I know that these are the bottom of the IQ ranges for the occupation, but what this left me with was the feeling that maybe those workers i take for granted are smarter that i give them credit for.

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