philbagg
Just Killing Time
and common mode rejection 
mshilarious
Banned
If you don't know Ohm's Law, you definitely aren't an audio engineer. A sound technician, perhaps, but not an engineer. I don't even call myself an engineer; I reserve that term for people that either have an EE or who actually know what they are doing. Sometimes that is the same person.
bunt
Hand-Crank Mixer
We don't write the laws, we just enforce them.. oh.. wait... that was a traffic ticket... regardless, I hope 'technician' implies some experience with voltage, current and resistance beyond sticking the paperclip in the outlet
After reading a bunch of your posts, MsHilarious, it seems the EE is already in your head, so I think it can come on out now
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mshilarious
Banned
We don't write the laws, we just enforce them.. oh.. wait... that was a traffic ticket... regardless, I hope 'technician' implies some experience with voltage, current and resistance beyond sticking the paperclip in the outlet
After reading a bunch of your posts, MsHilarious, it seems the EE is already in your head, so I think it can come on out now
I came out years ago, I'm an accountant. Trouble is my IQ is 5 points too high for accountant and 5 points too low for engineer. Oh well, beats working.
bunt
Hand-Crank Mixer
haha! 5 points too low? I'm thinking maybe you don't hang around with a lot of engineers if you think that...
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
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mixsit
Well-known member
Preamp tubes
http://www.waveridersgallery.net/catalog2/surfphotographer-jamie-scott-c-23_40.html
If you hadn't I suppose I would have..
Power tubesthen there's "in the tube":
http://www.waveridersgallery.net/catalog2/surfphotographer-jamie-scott-c-23_40.html
If you hadn't I suppose I would have..
mshilarious
Banned
haha! 5 points too low? I'm thinking maybe you don't hang around with a lot of engineers if you think that...
Nah, it's just reality. IQ doesn't equate to common sense, but it does track pretty closely with ability to comprehend higher math. I mean, they make you take calculus to become an accountant, but it's "business" calculus (i.e. calculus lite), and you can flush it right after you finish as it has little application in accountancy. Unless you go into postgrad research, but then you need more stats than anything else.
So while I'm sure there are a lot of engineers who are social idiots, I have confidence that they all at one point in their life could do math. And the hardcore computer science types I knew in an old job I had definitely weren't idiots. The owner of one company I worked for (hint: he had a lot more to do with the interwebs than Al Gore) wrote our billing system. You had to use Unix commands to retrieve customer accounts, it was hilarious. Now, customer service reps aren't normally Unix literate, but they had to be there! I bet he coded it in his spare time over a weekend, too . . .
Safe to say I know the difference between actual genius and pretend genius. I'm more of the latter.
bunt
Hand-Crank Mixer
Well okay then! I didn't actually mean to say engineers were idiots, but I re-read my post & can see how you got there. Sorry about that! Afterall, engineers are why we move forward. That said, I always thought accounting was math heavy. Go figure
mshilarious
Banned
Not really. On a day to day basis, your average accountant only needs to demonstrate sixth grade math skills. +-*/%, that's about it. There are some rare situations where algebra is called for, but those functions are either programmed into the accounting system or solved by most accountants by iteration. Time-value-of-money calcs use low-grade calculus, but 99% of accountants cannot derive or solve the equations, we just use financial calculators or spreadsheet formulae. Auditing uses basic statistical methods, but in practice those are reduced to standard practices and rules-of-thumb. Nobody in practice is doing regression analysis or calculating significance of t-stat. Academics do that in research, but that is hardly particular to accountancy.
(I remember reading on article on the "lattice" model of option valuation, which to me seemed to be a dumbed-down spreadsheet exercise for persons incapable of understanding the beautiful statistical method of the Black-Scholes-Merton technique. Then I noticed the article was written by my thesis advisor--D'Oh!
Who is a very, very smart guy and a subject-matter expert 
)People who think accounting is hard course work generally have IQs in the 115 range and end up as finance or management majors. CPAs are generally 120-130, compare that with 140-145 for engineers and 150-160 for scientists.
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dementedchord
Psychotic State alumni ch
been way tooooooo long since i've read one of these diatribes.... carry on...
Dr. Varney
Pimp
Why, for some reason, I'm suspicious of anyone who willingly takes an IQ test... Even more, when they remember their score.
Dr. V
mshilarious
Banned
Personally, I really don't care if you are suspicious of me or not; I will sleep soundly tonight either way. Anyway, one doesn't need to remember their IQ test score (don't know that I have taken one since third grade when I was forced to), but the correlation between many types of other standardized tests and IQ is so high that all I really need to remember is my SAT score, the year I took it, and how to use teh Googles to cross-reference the two statistics.
Even if you were too drunk or stoned to remember your SAT score, it's not very difficult to estimate your intelligence versus other people you know, and derive an IQ score within 10 points from that experience.
kcearl
I see deaf people
my mother had a Filipian tube..I could be wrong mind you
Dr. Varney
Pimp
mshilarious
Banned
C3P0, is that you?!
No, I was one of the gnarly looking dudes at the Cantina that got his arm cut off.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
During the summer as a child we all use to go tuben down the river.Ah to be young again
ez_willis
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dude, you should see my new improved english to greek to english essays. stellar.
Dr. Varney
Pimp
Sorry about your arm, dude... I was just feelin' a bit jumpy after that landspeeder ride.
Dr. V
bunt
Hand-Crank Mixer
well just to keep things in perspective, back in the day, every drug store had a little combo-cupboard full of tubes with a tester on top. This is where the mica meets voltage, and the "wiggle" factor came into play. Speaking of, there is much wiggle factor in an IQ test, as these are largely based upon what you know.... not what you are capable of knowing, so "IQ" becomes more of a data storage ideal instead of a neuron count, which as we know is pretty much a done deal by the time you are 5 years old or thereabouts.
Since I just made up 71.547026% of my statements above, I'll make up another... or at least prompt someone to go look it up. China is presently graduating 450,000 engineers each year. This is larger than the total number of engineers in the US. If I believed that on average, these 450,000 had IQs in the 140-145 range, I would also believe that a saturated transistor sounds the same as a saturated vacuum tube, and that the saturated brains of our sigma black belt engineering ranks, who, by the way depend heavily upon regression analysis to depict productivity and cost savings.... never ever meet their statistical mark. Why? Variation, of course. This is also why tubes have to be matched by non-engineering folks who look at uncalibrated meters and write values on the boxes.
an PS... I'm just havin fun... so please don't take this too seriously