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Re:IQ is only a minor factor in success by jacalata on Friday December 23, 2016 @04:29AM (#13243865)
The article explains that they rank the level of "self-made-ness" out of 10, with 10 being from a poor family with no advantages. Then it says " A total of 34 billionaires, or 8.5%, scored as 10s".
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Re:IQ is only a minor factor in success by Tinyyy on Friday December 23, 2016 @05:34AM (#13244086)
So given 10 possible rankings, it is pretty well distributed then?
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Re:IQ is only a minor factor in success by jacalata on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:33AM (#13245578)
Well distributed for what metric? Their backgrounds clearly don't match the normal population, since the normal population isn't 7% billionaires.
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