6 ms·
If You Want to Be an Inventor, It Helps a Lot If Dad Is an Inventor
- EGreg 9y agoI wanted to become an inventor... ... so I taught my dad to be an inventor first. And helped him earn a lot of money. And that increased my own chances :)
- miketich 9y agoHmm feels like an Outliers effect going on : When looking at top 0.1% of people, basically everything needs to go perfect, talent, work effort, family history, birth month, ect. Also, the data does appear to be super noisy.
- Dowwie 9y agoThe study was published through NBER this week http://papers.nber.org/papers/W24062 http://papers.nber.org/papers/W24062
- 0xWilliam 9y agoAh, another fantastic article reducing lifes choices down to statistical analysis. If you want to be an inventor then work towards it.
- raarts 9y agoWhere does the 'wish to become an inventor' come from?
- n8n3k 9y agoIf you want to have blue eyes, it helps a lot if your dad has blue eyes.
- godelmachine 9y agoNot been through the article yet, but the first thing that comes to mind - Why did Columbus discover America, why not his father?
- pravda 9y agoPatent Applicant =/= Inventor
- cyberpunk0 9y agoVery true. My dad worked with an engineer who would routinely steal the ideas and work of other engineers and patent them under his name
- MilnerRoute 9y agoSteve Wozniak's dad taught him lots of things when he was growing up (according to Gina Smith's biography). It made me feel almost jealous. Imagine what we could do if we had ongoing infusions of real practical information throughout our childhoods?