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What Happened to the Participants of the Math Olympiad 1971? A Multiple-Case Study Concerning the Occupational Success of the Winning Team from Hungary, Math Olympiad–Occupational Success

“…For the analyzed subsample, for a normal student career with a sequence of high school, college, university, and work, there are lower values at the age of 30 years with 109.6 ± 37.4, 43 years with 120.2 ± 36.1, and 56 years with 122.7 ± 35.4, compared to the IMO participants. Interestingly, average intelligence was also above average for this sample, at around 111, compared to normal populations [39,40,41,42,43].…”

“…This would be in accordance with the findings for the Swedish team, with the two female participants having the highest MPS values. However, at IMO in 1971, there were only five female participants in total (two from Sweden, one from France, one from Mongolia, and one from Czechoslovakia), implying some sort of gender drift toward males [39,40,48,49,50,51].…”

“…Despite the complexity of tracking and analyzing curricula over such a long lifespan, it is impressive that, on average, the people in this study reached occupational positions that are far above the average of normal samples (for example, in a comparison of the sample of the Cologne college school panel selected as one control cohort). Keep in mind that this cohort also had an average intelligence quotient of 111, which is highly above the normal population, making this sample highly selective [39,40,41,42,43]. The well-known phenomenon that educational successes are reproduced also seems to apply to the participants of the Math Olympiad, and consequently social inequalities are transformed in later life [20,21,39,40,41,42].…”

“…Keep in mind that this cohort also had an average intelligence quotient of 111, which is highly above the normal population, making this sample highly selective [39,40,41,42,43]. The well-known phenomenon that educational successes are reproduced also seems to apply to the participants of the Math Olympiad, and consequently social inequalities are transformed in later life [20,21,39,40,41,42]. Outstanding mathematical skills were transformed into other areas of life, and for the analyzed team this ranged from pure mathematics to medicine to brilliant language comprehension or even coordinative skills.…”

Fehlende Werte in den Sozialwissenschaften : Analyse und Korrektur mit Beispielen aus dem ALLBUS

“…Dieser beträgt für Gesamtdeutschland knapp 36 %. Mit Blick auf die Unterscheidung in systematische und neutrale Ausfälle lässt sich auch im konkreten Fall an die Kritik, die in der Literatur zu finden ist (Schnell 1997;Birkelbach 1998;Porst 1996), anschließen. Einige der Kategorien liegen eng beieinander: so erscheint es plausibel, dass ein Teil der nun Verstorbenen (neutraler Ausfall) im Falle der Interviewanfrage vor dem Tod zu den nicht Befragungsfähigen gezählt hätten (systematisch).…”