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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by rb808 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:29PM (#12444703)
>A stable six-figure job is failure.

If you look at the study, only a quarter of the gifted students made it to the 95% income percentile.

Being a Genius doesn't make you rich or happy or give you a satisfaction. It makes it more likely you'll have a PhD & produce academic papers.

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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by xyzzyz on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:40PM (#12448017)
To get to 95% income percentile, you need to earn at least $190k a year. I'd be very interested in seeing how many gifted students don't reach, say, 75% percentile, which is around $90k a year, and why.
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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by kajjffkk on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:08PM (#12449448)
Smart people dont need to grind their life away to brag to their peers about their middle class income.

Hopefully for all of us, theyre doing something more innovative for society, no matter how long it takes.

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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by srtjstjsj on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:30AM (#12494992)
A lot of them are earning low wages because they have PhD and are professors
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