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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm wondering if it is partly because people with inherently strong STEM ability tend to be introverted, socially awkward and gravitate toward isolated research, academia or think tank work rather than teaching? Or jobs that pay a lot more than teaching.[/quote]

These "introverted" and "socially awkward" individuals will soon inherit the earth form the extroverted, socially nimble empty-headed dCummies  driving the economy into the ground.
 
 
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Actually, I think they helped drive the economy into the ground. Wall Street hired a lot of these mathematical geniuses to design complicated algorithms to buy and sell stocks in fractions of seconds. The computers didn't know what they were trading, only that whatever it was fit the model.[/quote]

Doubt there is evidence for this but the full narrative is the extroverted salesmen that sold the securities.  Michael Lewis's book the Big Short actually profiles one of these guys who was not conned buy everything must go up and realized very early that the housing crisis was coming.  There are some folks who think it t was the fact that so many American's cant actually calculate an interest rate or the impact of an adjustable rate that caused the housing crisis.  Many of these folks were sitting ducks for unscrupulous salesmen and mortgage brokers.   [/quote]

Was it that they couldn't do the calculations or they were easy targets with not much to lose?[/quote]

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