[HN Gopher] Best predictor of professional success isn't cogniti...
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Best predictor of professional success isn't cognitive performance
Author : rbanffy
Score : 28 points
Date : 2023-04-16 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| lonelyhacker0x wrote:
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| pipes wrote:
| Or successful patents often have successful kids?
| tough wrote:
| Patently true
| Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote:
| "it's whether your parents have money"
| jl2718 wrote:
| There is one sentence about this in the article, stated without
| support, possibly as a joke. The rest of the article is about
| replication failure in social science studies.
| Paul-Craft wrote:
| It's a quotation from a researcher who's being interviewed
| for a popular news article. Be reasonable. What do you
| expect?
| mrleinad wrote:
| Title shouldn't have been changed to be so clickbaity.
|
| Real title is: "Daniel Sanabria, psychologist: 'The best
| predictor of professional success isn't cognitive performance,
| it's whether your parents have money'"
| bryanlarsen wrote:
| HN doesn't allow titles that long. How would you have reduced
| that to 80 characters?
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| "Best predictor of professional success is family wealth."
|
| Related:
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| https://www.ctpublic.org/education/2019-05-15/georgetown-
| stu...
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| https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/schooled2lose/
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16334883
| Bukhmanizer wrote:
| The original title is also incredibly clickbaity and has little
| to do with the actual article.
| fwungy wrote:
| It's not just having money, it's keeping it. Plenty if stories if
| lottery winners being back where they started soon enough. Plenty
| of poor athletes and musicians too who once had it.
|
| It takes intelligence and discipline to build wealth and if your
| parents have it they may pass that on to you. Sometimes that
| doesn't make you wealthy but they are still good things to
| inherit from your parents.
| filoleg wrote:
| > "We're not talking about mental health," Sanabria clarifies.
| "That's a different subject."
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| This quote was the explanation from the article for why they
| dismissed physical exercise as a valid way of improving one's
| cognitive performance. Because it only directly improves mental
| health and not your cognitive performance.
|
| That is a rather strange take. Sure, yeah, if we remove the one
| thing (mental health) that arguably nets the most improvement to
| your own life that affects every single area of it, including how
| others perceive you, then yeah, sure, we can dismiss exercise.
| Not sure why one would want to do that though, since their
| "that's a different subject" take doesn't sound that convincing,
| unless they want to argue that being mentally healthy doesn't
| contribute to cognitive performance (which imo would contribute
| to being more successful in a professional environment).
| chmod600 wrote:
| No surprise. We over-worship smartness and education. Doing,
| trying, and attitude are probably much more important beyond
| basic intelligence.
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