smarter? economics or engineering?
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My impressions and experience with people of an engineering mindset through education is they become a linear thinker, redundant in execution and proclivity to minutae. These qualities are important in particular instances in business at particular times, but what a drag to get things done.
An economics major may know business, but do they know the customer? Probably all things being equal in business, the economics major would have a higher net profit.
An economics major may know business, but do they know the customer? Probably all things being equal in business, the economics major would have a higher net profit.
I was an engineering major and Im currently at grad school studying economics. Engineering majors tend to dissect large problems into much smaller ones. Economics tends to look at whole economies like they are all interlinked. I would say economics can be a more difficult subject because there are so many variables to consider.
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The engineer -- in college they are required to pass higher levels of mathematics than econ majors.
Or, consider this -- engineers are right over 99% of the time (the vast majority of bridges never fall down), while economists are lucky to be right 50% of the time
LOL !! Good one ! But smartest people are "industrial engineers". In good "old Europe" ( to use a phrase by ex-defense secretary Rumsfeld ) it´s an interdiscplinary course of studies ( 70 % economics, 30 % engineering[machinery, electrotechnology, proces engineering or chemistry] )... Personally, I measured the smartness of people by using the "hate barometer" => the more other fellow students felt someone´s superiority, the more they hated the "smarties"...he, he, he...
