If You Want to Be an Inventor, It Helps a Lot If Dad Is an Inventor(motherjones.com)
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If You Want to Be an Inventor, It Helps a Lot If Dad Is an Inventor
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/12/if-you-want-to-be-an-inventor-it-helps-a-lot-if-dad-is-an-inventor-and-that-hes-not-poor/
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Hmm feels like an Outliers effect going on : When looking at top 0.1% of people, basically everything needs to go perfect, talent, work effort, family history, birth month, ect. Also, the data does appear to be super noisy.
Steve Wozniak's dad taught him lots of things when he was growing up (according to Gina Smith's biography). It made me feel almost jealous.
Imagine what we could do if we had ongoing infusions of real practical information throughout our childhoods?
Imagine what we could do if we had ongoing infusions of real practical information throughout our childhoods?
The study was published through NBER this week
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W24062
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W24062
Not been through the article yet, but the first thing that comes to mind - Why did Columbus discover America, why not his father?
Patent Applicant =/= Inventor
Very true. My dad worked with an engineer who would routinely steal the ideas and work of other engineers and patent them under his name
If you want to have blue eyes, it helps a lot if your dad has blue eyes.
I wanted to become an inventor...
... so I taught my dad to be an inventor first. And helped him earn a lot of money. And that increased my own chances :)
... so I taught my dad to be an inventor first. And helped him earn a lot of money. And that increased my own chances :)