Tweet: The Role of Luck by Scott Barry Kaufman

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In this article Scott Barry Kaufman give the following example studies to display the role of luck factors in success.

• Half of the differences in income can be explained by peoples country of residence and by the income distribution within that country,

• Scientific impact is randomly distributed, with high productivity alone having a limited effect on the likelihood of high-impact work in a scientific career,

• Our chance of becoming a CEO may be influenced by our name or month of birth,

• CEOs born in June and July is much smaller than the number of CEOs born in other months,

• People with last names earlier in the alphabet are more likely to receive tenure at top departments,

• Display of middle initials increases positive evaluations of people's intellectual capacities and achievements,

• Individuals with easy to pronounce names are judged more positively than those with difficult-to-pronounce names,

• Females with masculine sounding names are more successful in legal careers.