You just labeled yourself as a "nerd" in high school and demonstrated that it didn't forever cast you into a life of loneliness and despair. You excelled! Likewise, the cool kids won't be cool forever. That's the point. Who you are in high school doesn't define you.
But it does for a lot of people. I know people who have the same friends from HS, listen to the same music and generally act the same way. They graduated HS, but never really left the mentality.
Maybe not to a lot of people. All you know is that some people were affected. But you are not accounting for all the people who were not affected. Yours is a common bias.
Actually, didn't we just see somewhere that your first name affected the possibility of getting an interview?
Something along the lines of identical resumes, where names were stereotypical African names vs. stereotypical "American" names, and the latter would get more interviews, in statistically significantly higher numbers.
It was in the Freakonomics documentary. They also referenced another study where they cataloged over 100 unique spellings of the name "Unique" (e.g. "Uneek").
They also appear to have covered it in a podcast...
Agreed. I know many of the same. But I would also say that many of them fell into the "cool kids" camp in high school. Not so cool anymore. Likewise, a "nerd" may have the same friends, same hobbies, etc., but this may have led to greater success and recognition as an adult than being the star quarterback or drummer in a band in high school.
Perhaps I should have said status among peers in high school does not future status within society (ie. cool now does not equal cool later).
