Literature
Here's the Data
Here is the data:
You are a scientist.
You have always been a scientist. You graduated college in the single digits. There are more accolades, diplomas, honorary diplomas, peace prizes, and national honors than you can count. (Last check, it bordered the low hundreds.) You re-constructed genomes before most of your peers graduated middle-skool. The peers that managed to graduate, anyhow.
Sixty-percent of your peers never made it to hi-skool. Thirty-five-percent never made it past sixth grade.
By your twentieth birthday, these numbers grow by an average rate of 8.5% each year.
You used to think it was only a matter of being exceptional. A