Life really isn't that simple! Intuitive and right-brained skills
contribute greatly to success in life as well.
And as for using "optimised strategies in every aspect of their life"
...
Unless we have serious brain damage we should use both halves of our
brains!
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Subject: The Analytic Divide: Is Obama on the right or wrong side?
This is the divide between those with an analytical mind, and those
without.
Analytic People
* Have further developed their talent by pursuing an analytic degree
* Mostly, being analytic is a talent that you have or don't have, but
not a set of skills that you learn
* Manage their finance well, win more frequently on the stock market
* Avoid losing schemes such as lotteries, casinos (unless they do it for
fun, but not for money)
* Use optimized strategies in every aspect of their life, and thus
better succeed at finding jobs, buying a house that is not overpriced,
etc.
* Some will exploit the lack of numerical acumen from other people, to
their advantage: in smart fraud schemes, legal or illegal Ponzi schemes,
charging high interest rates and otherwise "mathematically abusing"
people and systems that lack good analytics for self-protection
* Their brain power can successfully compete against money: the "data
smart" but poor entrepreneur, vs. the wealthy one who is "data poor". In
other words, they can more easily acquire a high level status in society
even if born in poverty.
* Are not victims of scams.
Non Analytic People
* Don't manage well their finance
* Don't use optimized strategies in life
* May end up with jobs not paying as much, not the best spouse, a house
under water etc.
* Have more car accidents (maybe)
* Are exploited / abused / stolen by the "mathematically smart": both by
people and systems, both legally (lottery) and illegally (phishing)
* Bad at risk management: underestimate some high risks, overestimate
low risks
* Don't have a sense of chance / probabilities, have a hard time
predicting future, or end up with wrong predictions
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