michael_vassar comments on The Level Above Mine - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michael_vassar 04 October 2008 03:41:00PM 2 points [-]

Actually RU, that's a good approximation for many/most professions, but not all that good an approximation.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/SMPY/DoingPsychScience2006.pdf
gives more detail, showing a significant marginal impact from, at the least, 99.99th percentile math achievement at age 12 relative to merely 99.8th percentile math achievement at age 12.