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Don't overlook the impact of personal preferences/choices in the mix. Some very smart people do things like found startups or become teachers or lit PhDs, marr
by grandalf 16y ago
Don't overlook the impact of personal preferences/choices in the mix.
Some very smart people do things like found startups or become teachers or lit PhDs, marry a rich person, or decide to avoid the rat race.
- hugh3 16y agoOf course. Broad, society-wide correlations don't say much about specific cases. You won't find many of these PhDs in the bottom 10%, though (except in cases of mental illness). Smart people are smart enough to figure out how to avoid desperate poverty, and some of them are also smart enough to figure out that making $400K a year for Bain won't make them happy.