Saturday, February 10, 2007

SOURCE: EARL HUNT via Science magazine

"Random Samples:, Science magazine, Volume 315, Number 5808, Issue of 05 January 2007.

Many jobs requiring just-above-average cognitive abilities--say, 105 to 125 IQ points--are going begging in the United States, according to a recent analysis by Hunt. Apparently many jobs have reduced content requiring cognitive skills, by embodying those skills in ICT devices. In contrast, there is a surfeit of people with the potential to fill the relatively few jobs, such as Ph.D. physicist, that require very sophisticated professional skills.

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