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This might answer your question? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_dropout_billionaires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_dropout_billion
by mikkom 13y ago
This might answer your question?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_dropout_billionaires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_dropout_billion...
- pliny 13y agoAre there any billionaires on hn?
- jrmg 13y agoCompare with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires
- gavanwoolery 13y agoGood to look at both data sets, but it is possible there is no correlation to being a billionaire and going to college - no way to tell without a constrained environment as there are a billion variables (wealth of the parents, grades in school, etc).
- wellboy 13y agoThe one thing to be aware of here is that they didn't drop out of college, because they didn't succeed in it. They dropped out because it was too easy for them.
- icebraining 13y agoHow do you figure? Jobs seems to have dropped for lack of funds, Ted Turner was expelled,
- dmytrish 13y agoI guess that a list of college dropouts that are plain losers would be several orders longer. Don't forget about the survivorship bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias).
- icebraining 13y agoYes, but on the other hand, there are plenty of plain losers with degrees. Not that I recommend dropping out, though.
- dmytrish 13y agoI agree that any lists without clear statistical analyses are meaningless here.