I think that’s very important to note, thank you! In fact, the two measures may be quite related—it’s believable that pairwise comparisons across a normal distribution along with some noise (most of these are small numbers of contests) can look a lot like a power law (without the asymtotic crazy-large values).
But really, the tie between education and ability or performance is pretty tenuous in the first place, so we shouldn’t take any policy recommendations from this mathematical curiosity.
I think that’s very important to note, thank you! In fact, the two measures may be quite related—it’s believable that pairwise comparisons across a normal distribution along with some noise (most of these are small numbers of contests) can look a lot like a power law (without the asymtotic crazy-large values).
But really, the tie between education and ability or performance is pretty tenuous in the first place, so we shouldn’t take any policy recommendations from this mathematical curiosity.