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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I took plenty of stat courses in college. I also took a upper level math course or 2 on linear algebra, which is used in probability and statistics, albeit at a much higher lever.
Here's a cool video on linear algebra
Your census #s comparison to CEOs shows why you're off track from my initial post which was re: basic math, statistically speaking, most MBA grads have an average level of understanding/education and training, that's due to the largest group of CEOs being educated and the largest group of educated people graduate with average grades.
If you have any evidence that suggests that CEOs graduate with higher grades (in any field of study) than non-CEOs, I would be happy to read it.
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Most MBAs have an average level of understanding/education and training for MBAs.
Most CEOs have an average level of understanding/education and training for CEOs.
Most kittens have an average level of understanding/education and training for kittens.
These are truisms.
Most MBAs would happily take a $9 mill a year job as CEO. The vast majority of MBAs do not have a $9 mill a year job as CEO. So the people who have those jobs are not average for the general population, nor are they average for MBAs. Do you see what I am saying?
So a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company is obviously not average.
I have not made a deep study of CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies and I expect most of their transcripts would not be public knowledge. In my experience, people who have a passion to excel tend to try to excel at everything they do. So I'd guess that most CEOs of large corporations probably did get above average grades.
If education and hard work and excellence are not factors and most CEOs are average people, what do you think gets someone a job as CEO of a major corporation?