Toby_Ord comments on Increasing the pool of people with outstanding accomplishments - Less Wrong
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Without good ways to overcome selection bias, it is unclear that data like this can provide any evidence of outsized impact of unconventional approaches. I would expect a list of achievements as impressive as the above whether or not there was any correlation between the two.