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What % of lawyers are as smart as top physicists?

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doobsian elastic band
  12/10/14
what % of top lawyers are as smart as top physicists? 100%
frisky electric furnace
  12/10/14
what % of lawyers are "top lawyers"
doobsian elastic band
  12/10/14
0. lawyers are fundamentally, foundationally bottoms
Dashing unhinged location
  12/10/14
uhhh no. some are, but not even most. maybe less as...
Aggressive bonkers toilet seat parlor
  12/10/14
we had an ex-physicist working at my biglaw firm. he co-aut...
Comical naked rehab wrinkle
  12/10/14
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adventurous cream liquid oxygen
  12/10/14
What % are even as smart as mediocre physicists?
Emerald sandwich
  12/10/14
not many.
Aggressive bonkers toilet seat parlor
  12/10/14
What do mediocre physicists actually do anyway?
Exhilarant sable nowag stock car
  12/10/14
research shit. they just don't make as many insights as smar...
Aggressive bonkers toilet seat parlor
  12/10/14
why do you presume most people smart enough to be mediocre p...
doobsian elastic band
  12/10/14
0
Lawyers are the lowest form of life.
  06/28/25
a very, very small percentage but the raw numbers are probab...
hank_scorpio
  06/28/25
None.
tarrifs
  06/28/25
I think the average person in big law is about as smart as t...
........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,
  06/28/25
getting to dick around all day on stuff that is in all likli...
hank_scorpio
  06/28/25
Dad was a physicist and i’m definitely much dumber. I...
tehran
  06/28/25
tbh your dad was probably also a mouth breathing shitskin re...
blow off some steam
  06/29/25
edgy stuff man. Keep it up
tehran
  06/29/25
not really edgy basically every 80 iq shitskin immigrant ret...
blow off some steam
  06/29/25
Feynman's sister outted his IQ in some book and I remember b...
peeface
  06/28/25
(((Feynman))) is good marketing. He was more of an educator ...
Pope Leo XXX
  06/29/25
zero
Jeremy Wade Delle
  06/29/25


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Date: December 10th, 2014 12:51 PM
Author: doobsian elastic band



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Date: December 10th, 2014 12:52 PM
Author: frisky electric furnace

what % of top lawyers are as smart as top physicists? 100%

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Date: December 10th, 2014 12:54 PM
Author: doobsian elastic band

what % of lawyers are "top lawyers"

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Date: December 10th, 2014 12:54 PM
Author: Dashing unhinged location

0. lawyers are fundamentally, foundationally bottoms

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#26900775)



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Date: December 10th, 2014 1:06 PM
Author: Aggressive bonkers toilet seat parlor

uhhh no. some are, but not even most.

maybe less aspie, but in terms of raw intellectual "horsepower"? theoretical physics is just a way more complicated subject than law or basically anything else on the planet that you can study (abstract math is up there too).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#26900875)



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Date: December 10th, 2014 12:56 PM
Author: Comical naked rehab wrinkle

we had an ex-physicist working at my biglaw firm. he co-authored something with stephen hawking he said and said he used to do calculations regarding the universe some microsecond after the big bang. I think he just got into law for the money.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#26900792)



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Date: December 10th, 2014 12:57 PM
Author: adventurous cream liquid oxygen

0

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Date: December 10th, 2014 1:08 PM
Author: Emerald sandwich

What % are even as smart as mediocre physicists?

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Date: December 10th, 2014 1:13 PM
Author: Aggressive bonkers toilet seat parlor

not many.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#26900947)



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Date: December 10th, 2014 1:14 PM
Author: Exhilarant sable nowag stock car

What do mediocre physicists actually do anyway?

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Date: December 10th, 2014 1:18 PM
Author: Aggressive bonkers toilet seat parlor

research shit. they just don't make as many insights as smarter physicists. and they stay away from the really abstract stuff like string theory/brane theory, etc.

most of physics research is complicated enough that even mediocre physicists have to be pretty sharp.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#26900984)



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Date: December 10th, 2014 1:46 PM
Author: doobsian elastic band

why do you presume most people smart enough to be mediocre physicists have an innate desire to pursue math/physics for their entire lives

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Date: June 28th, 2025 11:24 PM
Author: Lawyers are the lowest form of life.

0

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Date: June 28th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: hank_scorpio

a very, very small percentage but the raw numbers are probably roughly equivalent, there are like a dozen top physicists

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057294)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 11:30 PM
Author: tarrifs

None.

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Date: June 28th, 2025 11:42 PM
Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,


I think the average person in big law is about as smart as the average person who majored in physics in undergrad.

I'm not sure what a "top physicist" is - and it seems like a decent number of impactful scientists were sort of dumb but just lucked into something (and there's also a number who are super smart but end up working on dumb shit like string theory).

The easier question is which job is "harder" - being a top lawyer or a top physicist - with a top physcist being like 5,000x more complex and a top lawyer spending all day trying to arguing that semicolons do or do not apply depending on if its convenient or not.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057318)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 11:48 PM
Author: hank_scorpio

getting to dick around all day on stuff that is in all liklihood entirely made up and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of reality while having to do hard math but never being held accountable for a single mistake ever doesn't really seem all that hard tbh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057331)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 11:49 PM
Author: tehran (luis)

Dad was a physicist and i’m definitely much dumber. I doubt more than 2-3% are as smart as an average physicist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057334)



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Date: June 29th, 2025 12:52 AM
Author: blow off some steam

tbh your dad was probably also a mouth breathing shitskin retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057426)



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Date: June 29th, 2025 12:55 AM
Author: tehran (luis)

edgy stuff man. Keep it up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057430)



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Date: June 29th, 2025 1:01 AM
Author: blow off some steam

not really edgy basically every 80 iq shitskin immigrant retard always has some dumb sob story like this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057434)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 11:52 PM
Author: peeface

Feynman's sister outted his IQ in some book and I remember being surprised that it wasn't all that extraordinary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057341)



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Date: June 29th, 2025 12:09 AM
Author: Pope Leo XXX

(((Feynman))) is good marketing. He was more of an educator and he cribbed a lot of his shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057356)



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Date: June 29th, 2025 1:02 AM
Author: Jeremy Wade Delle

zero

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2752449&forum_id=2#49057435)