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Comment by WalterBright

> Do we have any data on the correlation between high-school admission criteria and inventing the Covid vaccine or whatever?

Caltech requires good grades as criteria for admission. Caltech graduates have a disproportionately high percentage of Nobel prizes.

https://www.caltech.edu/about/legacy/awards-and-honors/nobel...

BTW, I think the mRNA vaccine technology is worthy of a Nobel Prize. Don't you?

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