Re: [ossig] (Fwd) STI News: Firm discovers good IT help hard to find

[Teoh Eng Sin <teohes@streamyx.com>]

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 11:44, TM Tan (aka Meng) wrote:

> Someone I met said something to me along these lines once:
> "Degree holders (ie people with good academic performance) usually end up as 
> salarymen/women their entire career. Those who don't do so well academically 
> know they have to work harder and end up doing business of some kind"
> 
> Again this is generalisation but my personal experience fits this...

tze meng,  

you have highlighted my very point ...(thank you .. can i buy you a
beer?)....  someone said the above this to you,  i have always wondered
myself, these are believes that becomes "generalisation"  supported by
"my personal experience" ...see we really don't know hence we can't
act/suggest/advise in an informed way.

i wondered why no research/surveys been done on this ?

eg.  (below only idea ...probably need to understand distribution of
results etc before doing real survey ... )

Take 500 students who had 9As or greater,  find out what they are doing
5, 10 years later.  

Take another 500 students who didn't scored around 2-5As (preferably
similar age, economic and geographic background).  What are they doing
5, 10 years later ?

It would be interesting ?


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