Preposterous Universe

 
Blogging makes you smarter

Reflecting about the last post reinforces something I've noticed for a while: that blogging makes you, if not actually smarter, then at least more careful and better-informed. In the past I might have noticed the story about science education and responded with a practiced sigh. But in blogging about it, I went and took the three minutes necessary to find some actual evidence of how much money teachers made compared to other professions. If my opinions don't actually change, at least the quality of evidence I can adduce for them improves a great deal.

By the way, I should have recognized that some people wouldn't take the time to click the link to the study of salaries for different professions of Penn alumni. So, to save valuable time, here are the basic figures in convenient table format:

	Industry	Average Salary
	Communications	$163,414
	Consulting	$147,450
	Elementary/Secondary Education	$47,482
	Financial Services	$471,462
	Government	$82,677
	Higher Education	$58,623
	Law/Judiciary	$186,663
	Manufacturing	$120,324
	Medicine	$197,492
	Non-profit	$68,173
	Other Medical/Health	$100,711
	Other Services	$169,403

I wonder what precisely is included in "Financial Services." Organized crime? Iraqi reconstruction contracts?

~ posted by Sean Carroll at 4:27 PM ~ link ~ ~ ~