Investing Is More Luck Than Talent
&gt;If the ratio of 50,000 were to hold for other traits, it would imply individuals who are 53 miles tall, have IQs of 5 million points, and live to be 4 million years old.<p>That&#x27;s just not how to do statistics, sorry. First of all, one of those is not like the others: IQ is normalized, the others are not. There are so many assumptions about linearity and distributions here that would need to be a lot more rigorous before anything like this could be said.<p>See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;department-of-awful-statistics-income-inequality-edition.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;department-...</a> for an actual interesting point regarding income and bell curves.