Across
- 1. Unexpected and beneficial discoveries made by chance often associated with curiosity-driven research
- 7. Personal quality like intelligence skills or effort often believed to be the main cause of success within a meritocratic view
- 8. External factors such as the level of education or social context that can influence an individual's opportunities for success
- 9. Nassim Taleb's term for the human tendency to construct narratives that make observed outcomes especially success seem inevitable in hindsight
Down
- 2. A funding criterion explored in the model where capital is distributed in equal measure to all individuals found to be highly efficient for increasing the success of talented people
- 3. The type of distribution that human features and qualities like talent and intelligence typically follow among the population
- 4. A paradigm rooted in the belief that success is due mainly if not exclusively to personal qualities and effort
- 5. Surname associated with the power law distribution commonly used to describe the unequal distribution of wealth with a few having a large majority
- 6. Term for the individuals simulated in the "Talent vs Luck" model each endowed with talent and starting capital
- 10. Random factors that the "Talent vs Luck" model suggests play a fundamental role in achieving high levels of success