Good point. I was blurring the line between how it is perceived as helping by the subject and how much it actually helps towards that goal statistically. The impact of money and skills and other second-order effects cannot be discounted if we’re talking about actual outcomes.
I’d agree about “working towards” but not so sure about “possessing”—which ones do you think make more money in average? ;-)
Good point. I was blurring the line between how it is perceived as helping by the subject and how much it actually helps towards that goal statistically. The impact of money and skills and other second-order effects cannot be discounted if we’re talking about actual outcomes.