15 Nov
2001
15 Nov
'01
12:55 p.m.
At 12:01 AM 11/16/01 +0000, you wrote:
In my opinion, haivng a degree (or any other
qualification) in a subject
has 0 correlation with how good you actually are at that subject....
In my case, I have a piece of paper saying that I am a particle
physicist. In practice, I don't know the first thing about (say) QCD.
I have no pieces of paper saying I am an electrical engineer, electronic
engineer, computer scientist, programmer, or anything related to
computers or electronics. But in practice I can generally understand most
areas of electronics or computing well enough to get the job done.
-tony
That's one data point. The estimation of the variance of the population
is infinite then.
C'mon, Tony, I am sure that the correlation is positive. Otherwise, you'd
be discrediting the intelligence of every human. But I'll have to agree
with you in that it is not close enough to 1.0 .
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org