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Are doctors smarter than mathematicians.

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  • #32
    sock puppet
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    jeepers101 wrote: »
    That's just ridiculous on so many levels

    Sorry for not treating this topic with the seriousness which it deserves.


  • #33
    764dak
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    ClovisI wrote: »
    Whether doctors are, on average, smarter than mathematicians (OP's question) is an entirely different question to whether medicine undergrads are, on average, smarter than maths undergrads (which is what most people seem to be discussing here).

    As for the second question I have no idea, but the answer to the first is clearly that mathematicians are smarter. The reason for this is quite simple: of the ~500 medicine students per year in Ireland, almost all become doctors. But of the ~250 maths students, only a fraction pursue PhDs, and of these not all become "mathematicians". Thus (in theory at least) only the best maths students become mathematicians, but the same is not true of doctors.



    I don't think this is ridiculous at all - not the first part anyway. (I am not a mathematician (yet)).

    Hmm, how many mathematicians are there compared to philosophers?


  • #34
    jeepers101
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    sock puppet wrote: »
    Sorry for not treating this topic with the seriousness which it deserves.

    touché


  • #35
    steddyeddy
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    Blackpanther95 wrote: »
    I have to disagree, most of the people I see doing maths aren't smart at all. Sure there's one or two who could do just about anything but the rest wouldn't pass medicine. You say its like apples and oranges but one can compare apples and oranges, for example one could compare them on weight, value, color etc. So if one had to compare maths with Medicine would you say that getting an undegrad in maths is easier than getting an MD?
    I'd say - absolutely.
    Getting a phd in maths vs in medicine?
    - I'd say the ph.d in maths is harder.
    And here I'm talking about the average student, not Sheldon Cooper vs Dr. House

    It most certainly is not.


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