Talent vs. Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure.
Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, from the University of Catania, Italy, illustrate "the importance, very frequently underestimated, of lucky events in determining the final level of individual success."
> Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, for explaining, mathematically, why success most often goes not to the most talented people, but instead to the luckiest.
> REFERENCE: “Talent vs. Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure,” Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 21, nos. 3 and 4, 2018. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068>
> This is the second Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Alessandro Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda. The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize for Management was awarded to Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 21.9 ms ] threadAlessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, from the University of Catania, Italy, illustrate "the importance, very frequently underestimated, of lucky events in determining the final level of individual success."
> Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, for explaining, mathematically, why success most often goes not to the most talented people, but instead to the luckiest.
> REFERENCE: “Talent vs. Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure,” Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 21, nos. 3 and 4, 2018. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068>
> This is the second Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Alessandro Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda. The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize for Management was awarded to Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.
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