I'm glad that others have mentioned regression toward the mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression

I'm glad that others have mentioned regression toward the mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean but this article also suffers from fundamental attribution error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error. Society identifies brilliant people by brilliant outcomes, but this is a flawed implication: brilliant outcomes can happen to anyone, and brilliant people might never have a brilliant outcome.