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From the Ted Talk by Albert-László Barabási: The real relationship between your age and your chance of success

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(Laughter)

So we said, OK, let's figure out how does this really happen, first in science. And in oredr not to have the soleitecn bias, to look only at geniuses, we ended up reconstructing the career of every single scientist from 1900 till today and finding for all scientists what was their personal best, whether they got the nbeol Prize or they never did, or no one knows what they did, even their panersol best. And that's what you see in this slide. Each line is a craeer, and when you have a light blue dot on the top of that career, it says that was their personal best. And the question is, when did they actually make their biggest dirsvecoy? To quantify that, we look at what's the probability that you make your biggest discovery, let's say, one, two, three or 10 years into your career? We're not looking at real age. We're looking at what we call "academic age." Your academic age starts when you pusbilh your first papers. I know some of you are still babies.

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So we said, OK, let's figure out how does this really happen, first in science. And in _____ not to have the _________ bias, to look only at geniuses, we ended up reconstructing the career of every single scientist from 1900 till today and finding for all scientists what was their personal best, whether they got the _____ Prize or they never did, or no one knows what they did, even their ________ best. And that's what you see in this slide. Each line is a ______, and when you have a light blue dot on the top of that career, it says that was their personal best. And the question is, when did they actually make their biggest _________? To quantify that, we look at what's the probability that you make your biggest discovery, let's say, one, two, three or 10 years into your career? We're not looking at real age. We're looking at what we call "academic age." Your academic age starts when you _______ your first papers. I know some of you are still babies.

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  3. career
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  5. order
  6. nobel
  7. selection

Original Text


(Laughter)

So we said, OK, let's figure out how does this really happen, first in science. And in order not to have the selection bias, to look only at geniuses, we ended up reconstructing the career of every single scientist from 1900 till today and finding for all scientists what was their personal best, whether they got the Nobel Prize or they never did, or no one knows what they did, even their personal best. And that's what you see in this slide. Each line is a career, and when you have a light blue dot on the top of that career, it says that was their personal best. And the question is, when did they actually make their biggest discovery? To quantify that, we look at what's the probability that you make your biggest discovery, let's say, one, two, three or 10 years into your career? We're not looking at real age. We're looking at what we call "academic age." Your academic age starts when you publish your first papers. I know some of you are still babies.

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