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A new study links doing one's homework, being interested and behaving responsibly in high school to better academic and career success as many as 50 years later. This effect, reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, holds true even after accounting for parental income, IQ and other factors known to influence achievement, researchers report.
The study analyzed decades of data collected by the American Institutes for Research beginning in 1960 and continuing to the present. The original data set included more than 370,000 students. High school participants were originally tested on academic, cognitive and behavioral characteristics in 1960 and also responded to follow-up surveys in later years. The new analysis looked at the initial student tests and their responses 11 years and 50 years later.
Of the 1,952 participants randomly selected from those who responded to surveys 50 years later, "those who showed more interest in high school and had higher writing skills reported earning higher incomes," said Spengler, who led the study. "They also tended to have higher occupational prestige than their peers when they showed responsible behaviors as a student." This was in addition to the gains associated with IQ, family income and personality traits such as conscientiousness, she said.
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-links-responsible-behavior-high-school.html
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Behavior in high school predicts income and occupational success later in life
American Psychological Association
[Source]: University of Illinois
The paper "How you behave in school predicts life success above and beyond family background, broad traits, and cognitive ability" is available online and from the U. of I. News Bureau. DOI
Has your experience been as described ??
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 28 2018, @08:41PM (2 children)
About writing skills. I'll never have a PhD, but writing skills are not necessary to get through school (way back in the day) if you could complete work. And to get a good job, if you could actually code and communicate sufficiently well. As a company grows and gets acquired by a company far away, and you get email in the mid 1980's, then you begin to realize the importance of being able to express yourself concisely and clearly in writing. Especially on complex technical subjects. Such as explaining how to perversely use exceptions on each iteration to transform a recursive function into an iterative one.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @08:47PM (1 child)
Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function iterative [ycombinator.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:36PM
Yep, just what I was thinking of. :-)
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