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spindritf on Jan 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Jobs Do the Top 1% Have?

> Would you rather have an 80 percent chance to make 75k per year, or a 10 percent chance to make 1 million per year?

60k or 100k? Maybe my perspective will change with age but I'd bat for the million.

rhino42 on Jan 15, 2012 [–]

Haha, guess I didn't account for selection bias. I just asked a risk aversion question to a group of people who are considering startups (and thus very risk-tolerant). Go figure!

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