Spurious cherry-picked statistics. I'm pretty sure most Westinghouse / Intel winners are doing exceptionally well, being in the top 1-10% of the society. A coup

Spurious cherry-picked statistics. I'm pretty sure most Westinghouse / Intel winners are doing exceptionally well, being in the top 1-10% of the society. A couple of such articles I'm reminded of: 1. Statistician Andrew Gelman's batch of math Olympiad campers: http://andrewgelman.com/2015/03/17/1980-math-olympiad-program-now/ http://andrewgelman.com/2015/03/17/1980-math-olympiad-progra... 2. Indian IIT exam toppers: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/where-are-they-now http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/where-are-they... 3. Famous Intel talent winners: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Science_Talent_Search https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Science_Talent_Search Nobel Prizes are a cherry-picked metric. Yeah, not all prodigies become adult geniuses. But the article grossly overstates the problem.