If the difference in success was due to a difference in skill, I’d expect people who have previously been successful scientists to be reliably also successful in other areas, say as entrepreneurs. I don’t see that being the case, so I suspect the difference in success is not so much due to a difference in skill.
Only if being a scientist and entrepreneur takes the same skills.
Sorry for the confusion. You were talking about merely “being a scientist”, which obviously does require a skillset, so I responded to that.
In the post you replied to, I was talking about the difference between “successful scientists” who have actually made a significant scientific achievement, and other scientists, who I think will often have comparable skillsets. That difference is what I’m trying to explain. I do not think “science is mainly luck”.
If there’s a skill that distinguishes successful scientists from scientists that aren’t it’s not clear that the same skill also makes successful entrepreneurs.
As a result you can assume that the skill doesn’t exist just because scientific success doesn’t transfer to reliable success as an entrepreneur.
Only if being a scientist and entrepreneur takes the same skills.
Only if the skillsets required for success overlap to a significant degree. I think they do, but of course I haven’t tried entrepreneurship myself.
I think it’s hard to claim at the same time that there are overlapping skillsets and that science is mainly luck instead of skill.
Sorry for the confusion. You were talking about merely “being a scientist”, which obviously does require a skillset, so I responded to that.
In the post you replied to, I was talking about the difference between “successful scientists” who have actually made a significant scientific achievement, and other scientists, who I think will often have comparable skillsets. That difference is what I’m trying to explain. I do not think “science is mainly luck”.
If there’s a skill that distinguishes successful scientists from scientists that aren’t it’s not clear that the same skill also makes successful entrepreneurs.
As a result you can assume that the skill doesn’t exist just because scientific success doesn’t transfer to reliable success as an entrepreneur.
You mean “As a result you can’t assume”?
Yes.