cont. We know that A students end up working for a C-minus entrepreneur. But what about science?
The problem is that because science is instutionalized, it is impossible for a mediocre student to do science unless one has, like Charles Darwin, f-you money. They don’t accept C-minus students in Grad School, and in scientific PhDs they throw you out rather quickly if you are not good at exams. Very, very few managed to escape through the net: a brilliant case is here. This fellow Stephen Smale is a giant of modern mathematics.Looking at studies to extract the bias and test my hunch that scientific contribution peaks at C to B-minus record.

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