Philosophers vs. psychiatrists & psychologists mentally, in terms of soundness, etc.




I thought this was interesting:

Mental soundness is often attributed to those who make a life’s work studying it, but philosophers far & away outdo psychs, per the GRE (grad school exams given to most disciplines), and, much more.

Here’s some other gems from the original website:



‘The standardized test used to assess applicants to graduate school in management and business. (The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), typically for Master of Business Administration degrees (MBAs)).’


Mean LSAT scores by major (2015). The LSAT is the entrance exam for law school.”


Average Number of Standard Deviations Above the Mean for the Three Sections of the GRE (2019).  The GRE is the standardized test used to assess applicants to graduate school in most disciplines. Graph by Tomas Bogardus.”


Mean GRE Verbal scores by major (2015). The GRE is the standardized test used to assess applicants to graduate school in most disciplines.”


My own test scores were ninety-ninth percentile in all categories in the state-standards testing I took, & fourteenth-grade for overall comprehension in grade school.

Things to think about.

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Joe Valentyn
February, 2020