Tuesday, August 14, 2012

How to become a member of the Swedish 1%

What is the most important predictor of professional success in Sweden - is it cognitive capacity? Personality type? Educational attainment? Where/what you studied?

http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/07/27/esr.jcs070.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=5zxdE2LtXSzwuWq

The results are pretty surprising to me - early on total schooling is most important but then later on personality type is most important. Cognitive capacity is of limited benefit net of schooling. Which school you attend and what you major has only a minor impact as well.

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