First of all, this is blogspam. The link to the "study" actually just links to another news article. This seems like it might be the actual study: http://files.

First of all, this is blogspam. The link to the "study" actually just links to another news article. This seems like it might be the actual study: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED368304.pdf http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED368304.pdf Second, note the sample: > In addition to 51 valedictorians, study participants include 20 salutatorians and 9 top honor students.(Salutatorians were included on the urging of members of a pilot study of high school valedictorians. Nine students who were neither valedictorians nor salutatorians also were included on the advice of school administrators who identified these students as the "real" top students at their high school. In other words, this study only included a relatively small number of people, at the top of their class, So how can it support the headline conclusion in the headline?