Jayson_Virissimo comments on Politics Discussion Thread August 2012 - Less Wrong

0 Post author: OrphanWilde 01 August 2012 03:25PM

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Comment author: gwern 03 August 2012 07:41:24PM 0 points [-]

"Scumbag Eugine Nier - responds to a statistical generalization with 2 famous examples."

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 05 August 2012 01:55:40PM 2 points [-]

What statistics? All I see is an assertion.

Comment author: gwern 05 August 2012 03:58:23PM 3 points [-]

That captains of industry are from wealthy families? It's certainly consistent with everything I've read about the heritability of wealth and it's easy enough to supply other famous examples (eg. Bill Gates III).