>
> --- For sheer raw unadorned
> > intellectual
> > > power, though, you couldn't do better than the top
> > ten
> > > students in my law school class at Ohio State.
> > They'd
> > > eat Princeton/Cambridge/Michigan philosophy
> > undergrads
> > > and grad students for lunch. Much nicer people,
> > too.
> > >
> > > jks
> > >
> > ==================
> >
> > Mmmmmmm, nice people with an aggressive/adversarial
> > streak..........Billy
> > Shakespeare where r u.......
> >
> > Ian
> >
>
> Actually, philosophy students are far far far more
> aggressive and aversarial. Now, I heard stories about
> nasty competitiveness at other law schools, but I can
> only recall two incidents where I encountered it at
> OSU Law, both memorable because so unusual. However,
> we were talking about whether people are smarter at
> the Ivies, and I know from personal experience that
> they are not. The philosophy grad students at
> Princeton or Michigan at better than at Ohio State,
> but the Princeton ones are no better than the Michigan
> ones. ANd the Columbia law students are only on
> average better than the Ohio State ones: the top 20 on
> a class at either school are essentially equivalently
> smart. jks
>
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Do you have a quantitative data set to back up that claim, complete with disaggregation by gender, class, race? :-)
Philosophers wouldn't foist the war on drugs on the public, nor would they have brought us all those fancy contracts that gave us Enron, '3rd World' debt etc. etc. Or do you want to blame the economists and accountants for all that shit?
Our ignorance is infinite, no matter how much we care to flatter ourselves with bits of paper, institutional roles yada yada yada.
Ian