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Not necessarily. See for example D.E. Shaw, J.H. Simons, N. Myhrvold.
by bd 18y ago
Not necessarily. See for example D.E. Shaw, J.H. Simons, N. Myhrvold.
- aswanson 18y agoOf course not, there are always extreme outliers. But if you do a median net worth survey of the professions mentioned above versus that of of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, the results are indisputable. Very high intelligence careers have a poor comparative financial ROI, on average.
- bd 18y agoYou are right. But to play devil's advocate: what if very high intelligence individuals are not more likely to do science, mathematics or engineering? For a very rough approximation: if I remember well, SAT averages for Harvard/Yale/Princeton (more likely to be doctor/lawyer/executive) are very similar to (or even higher than?) scores for MIT/Caltech/Stanford (more likely to be scientist/engineer). So, could it be that it's not the high intelligence by itself that has said dampening effect on one's earning potential, but it's more about interests of the individual?
- aswanson 18y agoPossible, but it doesn't sit right with me intuitively. And since I don't care enough about the issue to spend time collecting data to refute your premise, we have to leave it at that. :)