In an earlier column, I discussed a paper written by the Chief Economist of the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Chad Moutray, which showed that students who received “mostly A’s” as their college grades were two percent less likely than other students to be self-employed.
A lot of readers commented that college grades don’t necessarily reflect how smart a person is, so we shouldn’t interpret this paper’s results to mean that entrepreneurs are less intelligent than those who work for others.
I completely agree.
But that still leaves open the question of whether entrepreneurs are more or less intelligent than those who work for others.
To read the full, original article click on this link: How Smart Is the Average Entrepreneur?
Author: Scott Shane
