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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's remarkable how people draw strong inferences from anecdotes. I see doctors doing this too, in matters of life and death. "I had one patient who..." Personal knowledge skews our conclusions. So yeah you know this one kid from Skidmore who's a CEO, but come on people, do you really think going to a worse school doesn't reduce your odds of success? Why wouldn't you try to do the best you could at every step of the way? It's a bit like arguing with vaccine skeptics. Vaccines are a public health necessity. But the people you're arguing with are, almost definitionally, not geniuses. You have to make the case, but you need to rely on repetition and appeals to emotion, not reason.[/quote] No, your college does not reduce your odds of success.[/quote]
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