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> just eight have won Nobel Prizes You pick 2000 teenagers, and 8 go on to win a Nobel Prize, and you're still not satisfied? High expectations much...
by luckyt 10y ago
> just eight have won Nobel Prizes
You pick 2000 teenagers, and 8 go on to win a Nobel Prize, and you're still not satisfied? High expectations much...
- mbroshi 10y agoAgreed. This article may or may not have made some good points, but I couldn't keep reading after that.
- TheAlchemist 10y agoSame here - an instant blocker for me.
- liquidise 10y agoThat means 1 in 250 go on to win a Nobel Prize. An absurd rate. I'd bet money that the only group to perform better over the same timeframe is the list Nobel Prize winners themselves. Edit: I stand corrected. Solvay Conference had 15/29 one year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference#Fifth_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference#Fifth_Confer...
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- ChicagoBoy11 10y agoIsn't the group of CalTech alumns slightly worse but on around the same order of magnitude?
- jeffwass 10y agoAuthor also contradicts himself. First the author laments only 8 novel prizes of the batch. Then in the next sentence goes on to praise Lisa Randall for revolutionising physics, and notes that for every Lisa Randall there are dozens that fall short of their potential. Ironic because Lisa Randall didn't win a Nobel Prize in physics. Yet.....
- 77pt77 10y ago> Ironic because Lisa Randall didn't win a Nobel Prize in physics. Yet..... And given her current work and experimental results there is no reasonable prospect she ever will, unlike people that you know that would win sooner or later (unless they died) > For every Lisa Randall who revolutionizes theoretical physics She did not revolutionize Physics. Not even close. She barely made a dent.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoYeah this is actually a terrible article. The author keeps confusing creativity with success. And he keeps thinking that "creative" people are the ones that change the world, which is ridiculous. To change the world, you need to be almost insanely stubborn and almost insanely self-confident.