Hilarious Nobel

The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family | Torsten Bell https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/07/the-science-behind-winning-nobel-prize-being-man-from-wealthy-family-torsten-bell?CMP=share_btn_url

So either talent is hugely unequally distributed, concentrated among richer families, or opportunity is. It’s the latter. Reinforcing the case that a more equal sharing of opportunity would mean more scientific progress, the authors show that cities that have more intergenerational mobility produce more laureates.

Want your kids to win a Nobel and can’t change your own occupation? The research offers two bits of advice. Have a son (you need to be from a particularly rich family if you’re a woman, indicative of the wider barriers women face in science), and live in America.

Like a chicken wearing a leaf, this is hilarious. I thereby command that the new name for the Noble prize society is HILARIOUS NOBEL.