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eYrKEC2 on Sept 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: CS Career fair cancelled at community college beca...

Bingo. A BS is a great filter for hard working and higher IQ.

Guess who does really really good in sales? People who play varsity or college sports. Is it a rule? Nope. Is it a great heuristic? Yep. Does football teach you sales? Not really... but it does filter for certain traits, one of which is probably pure animal magnetism and the base desire of humans to be influenced bt the most fit individual.

stonogo on Sept 13, 2024 [–]

Team sports teach you how to work productively with people, including people you might not like. That skill directly transfers to sales.

ghaff on Sept 14, 2024 | [–]

And it almost certainly also filters for competitiveness, probably more so than the typical technical curriculum does.

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