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Surely it's not that popularity in high school gets you higher wages later, but that charisma gets you both of these things?
by rwallace 14y ago
Surely it's not that popularity in high school gets you higher wages later, but that charisma gets you both of these things?
- sukuriant 14y agoNope. It's clearly the popularity in high school. It's amazing what sort of effects your early years, and especially those people around you in your middle years can have. What happens is, basically, everyone in your high school class calls up your future employer and says either "raise his wage" or "lower his wage". The future employer uses their consensus to decide your salary. It's really fascinating. In other news, ice cream truck drivers now on trial as accessories to murder during summer time. [edit: So it doesn't come off as otherwise, I'm not snarking you. From a preliminary glance, it certainly looks like they might be doing that whole "correlation == causation" bug that can happen very frequently. Your analysis seems reasonable to me]
- bduerst 14y agoTo be fair, they're comparing the lower 20% to the upper 20% in terms of popularity. I don't know where you went to high school, but in mine there was a huge socioeconomic difference between the families in those two subsets. It's more than just charisma, I'd wager.