>Look at how these articles go. They take dropping out as pointA and then becoming a billionaire as pointB. Then they just draw a straight line connecting them

>Look at how these articles go. They take dropping out as pointA and then becoming a billionaire as pointB. Then they just draw a straight line connecting them both. And now the end inference which is tried to press upon is "Dropping out will make you a billionaire". Co relation of one in a million almost certainly doesn't imply causation. The stories also don't consider in depth what the person has done before they dropped out and how special they were already. Even the oft-told Bill Gates stories often gloss over his unique position of having ample computing time in his youth and how capable he was prior to dropping out.