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Math Skills Predict Future Success
Does Mathematical Ability Predict Career Success?
Scientific American
“For both males and females, mathematical precocity early in life predicts later creative contributions and leadership in critical occupational roles.
Go to linkResearchers at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College recently followed up with a group of people, who, forty years earlier, scored in the top percent of the math section of the SAT. The math skills they demonstrated early on appear to have helped them reach later success: 25-40% earned doctorates, and collectively they have published 7,572 academic articles!