http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/12/21/entrepreneurial-success-not-correlated-to-university-prestige/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/12/21/entrepreneurial-success-not-correlated-to-university-prestige/comment-page-1/#comment-2696 statmon Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:13:56 +0000 http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/?p=4409#comment-2696 Interesting look at the statistics, but seems to imply that regular schools get the lion's share of things. Viewed inversely, 3.5% (10/287) of schools garnered 19% (a greater proportion, 5.42X) of the startups. This would imply that going to the top schools does increase odds of a successful startup (though I concede it may not be statistically relevant (p<0.05)). Of course, "statistics will confess to anything if you torture them long enough". Interesting look at the statistics, but seems to imply that regular schools get the lion’s share of things. Viewed inversely, 3.5% (10/287) of schools garnered 19% (a greater proportion, 5.42X) of the startups. This would imply that going to the top schools does increase odds of a successful startup (though I concede it may not be statistically relevant (p<0.05)). Of course, “statistics will confess to anything if you torture them long enough”.

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