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 The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 28 2018, @11:34PM (1 child)
You're aware that the far-left-ization of our higher ed system is not something that's been going on forever, yes? Thus anything outside the time since its emergence can have nothing to do with success or failure of a particular institution.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @05:21PM
well... i do know that 'liberal studies' wasn't supposed to be meant as 'sjw training'. liberal education has nothing to do with politics, but has been subversed by some ignorant loudmouths.
not saying you are. but the message of ignorance is very loud on some popular news sites that do not care about the intended meaning. that is probably a benefit to them to be wrong and i doubt they themselves are ignorant of what they are claiming.
both sides do it so dont get me wrong about it.
still if someone really cares about what the political leaning is they should try to figure that out before going or be ok as part of a group that might be able to change the place if they are ok with being upset by what everyone else around them is doing.