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> I disagree. Citation not needed. Common sense and critical reasoning will suffice here. I'm not so sure about that. I'm ~3 decades away from high school. Loo
by jjav 3y ago
> I disagree. Citation not needed. Common sense and critical reasoning will suffice here.
I'm not so sure about that. I'm ~3 decades away from high school. Looking at the academic top 10% of our class, all of us have advanced graduate degrees so academic success in high school led to similar success in university.
Today in that group a handful are unemployed (not retired, just unemployed) and the rest of us have solid successful but uneventful careers.
The wildly successful ones (mansions, yachts, all that) were all in the lower 50% of our class academically. They were (and are) good at hustling and sales and started many businesses and are today very rich.
- pedrosorio 3y agoThe original statement: > "gifted kids are far more likely to contribute significantly to our future" didn't say anything about gifted kids being far more likely to be "wildly successful with mansions and all that" or "starting many businesses, hustling and selling". It read "contribute significantly to our future".