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115: Rory Sutherland | Alchemy: How Great Marketing Ideas Are Built Around The Profoundly Irrational

Curious Worldview Podcast

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Is There a Correlation Between Income and Success?

Taleb says income is not a perfect proxy for success, but nonetheless you can't game it. Most correlation between success and IQ driven by the fact that if you have an IQ below 90 or 85 there are incredibly few fields in which you can be genuinely successful. Taleb's great aunt was an anthropologist called Beatrice Blackwood who helped start early kind of IQ research. She thought Princeton professors were the highest form of human life and intelligence so tests at which they did disproportionately well had great value.

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