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		b215826 on Jan 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobel laureates are 22 times more likely to have h... > "Newsflash: Upper class men still rule the world." Do you have to really bring class and gender into this debate? Examples of not-so-upper-class people who went on do great things in life -- Srinivasa Ramanujan, Michael Faraday, Linus Pauling.

anilgulecha on Jan 27, 2020 [–]

Given how sparse these data points are, then aren't these examples of exceptions that prove the rule?

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