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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to MIT 30 years ago and took a couple classes at Harvard. I didn't think the Harvard kids were especially impressive. I think MIT admission rate was in the 35% range, so not especially impressive although IME more self selecting for a mathy brain, not just a rich-ish brain.

In the 30 years since that time, I've met a million smart people and the idea that the smartest people  are from HYP is laughable. Maybe you work in an industry that doesn't attract smart people[/quote]

You sound like a stem type who doesn’t even have the capability to differentiate a smart non-stem person from a very smart one.

Just look at the famous alumni of HYP versus other schools. It speaks for itself.[/quote]

I work in the larger tech industry, sure. Because I was born in 1970 and tech was the most exciting thing happening in America in the second half of the 20th century. Same way I moved to the Seattle right after graduation and then to Silicon Valley 10 years later. The idea that people who chased exploration, ingenuity, adventure and - sure - fixture lack some kind of social skills is laughable. If anything, we look at the smartish kids who said, "not sure what I want to do, law school, I guess" and think .. what a way to live your life! And those are the people I see now in the DC universe.  Smartest? NFW. [/quote]

I’m suggesting as a stem type you probably can’t really perceive the gradients of non-stem intelligence. Like an engineer looking at a Picasso and comparing it to finger painting.

But even within tech, who has prevailed? Zuck. Gates. Bezos. All the Stanford guys. [/quote]

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