Students in STEM field smarter than those in education
Studies looking at the fields students choose to go into reveal that students that score higher on aptitude tests consistently go into the STEM field while those with lower scores go into the education and related fields. These findings have been consistent for the past seven decades. A study conducted in 1952 measuring the scores of college graduates on the Army General Classification Test found that the median score for the education field was 122 while the median score for the physical science was 130. Fast forward to 2014, a look at the verbal aptitude and math scores from the 2014 SAT Report on College & Career Readiness shows that students who reported their intended area of study to be agriculture had an average SAT score of 473 and those that wanted to go into education had an average score of 482 while those that intended to study math and statistics had an average score of 574. found the social of the the fields talented students choose to go into reveal that students that score higher on aptitude test data looks at group averages instead of individuals uses measures at 5 different points in time given analyses of two tests: In both samples, the pattern was nearly identical.
