I suspect this comment under TFA is closer to what’s going on: “My sense is that winning Westinghouse has slanted substantially toward the types who just want t

I suspect this comment under TFA is closer to what’s going on: “My sense is that winning Westinghouse has slanted substantially toward the types who just want to overachieve and go to Harvard relative to the types who are weird nerds even apart from any differences between subjects.” Access to the professional mentoring and resources needed for kids to do projects at the currently-competitive levels has literally been commodified. This underlying population change then explains why they don’t go into science careers.