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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neither me nor my DH attended an ivy league school. We both have flexible well paying jobs with good work life balance. We have a great life and it's what we want for our kid. Not a crazy high pressure job that will destroy their health.[/quote]
Another low iq person exposed.[/quote]

DP. Nothing about that post is low IQ. It is simply stating a different preference.

Low IQ is not being able to understand the difference.[/quote]
Trying is inference using anecdotal instead of statistical evidence IS low iq.[/quote]

Except, again, that’s not what that poster was doing.

This whole discussion seems to be going over your head so you may want to bow out gracefully.[/quote]
I am the PP with the flexible well paying job. I often encounter Ivy League grads with attitudes like the "low IQ" poster. They don't do well and don't last in my sector.[/quote]

I doubt the “low IQ” poster attended an Ivy League school. More likely a striver parent on the low end of the Dunning-Kruger curve.

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It was a general comment on people using anecdotal evidence to infer. It has nothing to do with whether an Ivy League grad is actually superior, one way or the other. Once again, comments in this thread fully show the low iq nature of DCUM. Reddit, although full of high school and college kids, is actually much smarter.[/quote]

You clearly misunderstood the post you responded to.  The thesis of the original article is "that these schools [are] really unparalleled training grounds to be in these upper-echelon professional jobs."  The post you responded to was pointing out that they aren't in one of these stressful upper-echelon jobs, and they have a good life.  It wasn't an anecdote about CEO-level professional success without ivy league attendance; it was making the point that the definition of success as laid out in the article is very narrow and not something that everyone is seeking.[/quote]

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