What attracts our best minds?

Posted by Marc Hodak on November 7, 2008 under Revealed preference | Read the First Comment

One of the most important questions in any society is: where do your brightest minds go? I would argue that in a healthy society, those minds would go to our most productive sectors. In that context, I’m pretty pleased about what this chart says about the U.S.:

The libertarian blogs are chuckling about the chuckleheads at the bottom with a “That explains it” attitude. I look at it with a slight twist: it feels right that the lower the average IQ represented by this chart, the more likely the holder of that IQ is aiming for a government job. That’s as useful a place to store our less brilliant minds.

HT: Coyote