Adlach

That’s some good data. Thanks!

Can I ask where you got that data? Those numbers are substantially higher than I was able to find in the US, but I grant that my sources are self-reports. I can find public data, but only as recently as 2010.

Fair enough, I can only speak for the US. In the US, the 50th percentile for professors is about the 80th percentile nation-wide.

I think it’s less about wealth directly as it is about the overly particular academic path. I think there is high heritibility among professors because their kids get a much better idea of how to become a professor, and have a built-in network.

Professors are nowhere near the 95th percentile in income. If this were the case, you would expect to see a spike around the 75-85 range, not at 95.

Abso-goddamn-lutely.

John Brown. The man stood up for what was right, even at the cost of his own life.

Say you need to go west. There’s two buses on offer: one goes east, and the other goes further east. Do you get on the bus that goes less east, or do you just start walking west?

I didn’t make a silly mistake, you did.

(thanks, lol)

The right one will be twice as willing as the left one!!

0*2 is 0, you see

A or (A or B) reduces to A or B, not A