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>One could say that in the work place, success is uncorrelated with merit. Do you truly believe this? In my career experience, success is highly correlated wit
by oarabbus_ 7y ago
>One could say that in the work place, success is uncorrelated with merit.
Do you truly believe this? In my career experience, success is highly correlated with merit. Sure, I have seen plenty of incompetence at high positions, and I've seen brilliant people who received little success in their careers.
But overall, I'd say the correlation is very high.
- pmiller2 7y agoI would be willing to bet that advancement to any given level correlates with a certain base level of merit. However, I would also guess that the higher up one goes, the thing that correlates best would be luck. I have no empirical evidence for this other than myself and what I know of people around me, but it definitely rings true to me. Edit: what a coincidence this is on the front page right now: http://theconversation.com/huge-success-in-business-is-largely-based-on-luck-new-research-130843 http://theconversation.com/huge-success-in-business-is-large...
- crimsonalucard 7y agoYou're right. What I mean is, a lot of workplace advancements happen not because of success, more-so than education. Obviously at the very least some advancements happen due to merit and due to that, there is a correlation.