If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance

Re:If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s j... by civilized on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:05PM (#35448786)

> The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms

This is the least credible genre of "study says" article. You can't make claims about the real world based on some of researcher's guesswork simulation of society.

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Re:If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s j... by grandmczeb on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:35PM (#35448956)

Wonder what the title would have been if the simulation spit out the opposite result - “Not so lucky after all? Science confirms poverty caused by lack of intelligence, talent.”

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Re:If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s j... by jgoodknight on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:33AM (#35455898)

The problem with studies like this and why they lack credibility is there probably wouldn’t have been a headline if the model didn’t spit out the result that wealth is created primarily by luck. They either wouldn’t have published the result, or they would have come up with a new model.

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Re:If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s j... by grandmczeb on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:54PM (#35463924)

Oh definitely - the joke is that a headline like that wouldn’t exist in real life for exactly the reasons you mention.

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Re:If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s j... by lmaoge on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:37AM (#35449735)

This guy gets it

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