From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 21:04:46 MDT
I really wouldn't want to get one of the brain surgeons from that bottom 4%,
whose IQ is a two digit number. Yowsa!
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damien Broderick [mailto:damienb@unimelb.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:06 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: RE: Help with a Minimum Wage Model
>
>
> At 05:11 PM 4/7/03 -0700, Lee Corbin re-wrote:
>
> >The data in the quote reads
> > Percentage of
> > Top Percent All Taxes Paid
> >
> > 1% 37%
> > 5% 56%
> > 10% 67%
> > 50% 96%
>
> By a strange coincidence, these figures are exactly the same for the
> proportion of brain surgeons working in the USA!
>
> Percentage of
> Top Percent IQ Brain Surgeons
> > 1% 37%
> > 5% 56%
> > 10% 67%
> > 50% 96%
>
> It's just so unfair to the clever, who get no rest at all,
> than the less
> intelligent half of the population should sit around on their duffs
> drinking beer and cleaning out restrooms and other idleness
> when they could
> be doing their share of the brain surgery!
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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