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 Popular high school students such as Ferris Bueller, right, in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" are likely to earn more than their less-liked peers, according to a new report. |
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Good luck, Gleeks and band dorks. A new report suggests that running with the in crowd in high school bodes well for future earnings potential. Those considered popular in secondary school earned 2% more decades later than oddballs such as Napoleon Dynamite – a so-called popularity premium. So says a new analysis of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which follows more than 10,000 people who graduated from the blackboard jungle in Wisconsin in 1957. Forty years after graduation, those who were in the 80th percentile of the popularity chain earned 10% more than their peers in the 20th. That’s equal to 40% of the extra income boost they’d get from an extra year of schooling (hat tip to the Washington Post). For Ferris Bueller and his ilk, “skill in building positive personal and social relationships and adjusting to the demands of a social situation” likely translate into good relationships with colleagues and clients in the workforce, according to the report. Researchers deemed students to be popular based on how many of their cohorts listed them as friends. Older and smarter students, as well as those who hailed from a warm family environment, tended to rank high on the social totem pole. But being able to host underage parties at fancy homes or swerve onto campus in a slick car didn’t help much: Household wealth played “only a minor role” in popularity. It’s unclear whether the Cher Horowitzes and Regina Georges of the country enjoy the same wage boost from popularity – researchers limited their analysis to some 4,000 male respondents. They also didn’t factor in whether popular students’ relationships with their friends were close. And the report doesn't delve too deeply into personality traits, sidestepping the common trope of popular-guy-as-bully. But a separate report last year found that nice guys generally earn less than their meaner counterparts. Gabriella Conti of the University of Chicago, Gerrit Mueller of the Institute for Employment Research, and Andrea Galeotti and Stephen Pudney of the University of Essex compiled the Wisconsin report. (Read by Brian Salter. Brian Salter is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
學校合唱團和樂隊的小屁孩們，祝你們好運。一項新報告顯示，讀高中時被人群簇擁的那些人氣學生未來將能有不錯的收入。 這些在中學里受歡迎的學生幾十年后所掙的錢比拿破倫?戴納麥特這樣的怪胎要多出2%。這種現(xiàn)象被稱為“人氣獎金”。 這些結(jié)果來自威斯康星州縱向研究的一份新的數(shù)據(jù)分析報告，該研究對1957年畢業(yè)于威斯康辛州秩序混亂中學的1萬多人進行了跟蹤調(diào)查。 畢業(yè)40年后，那些在人氣鏈中位于第80百分位的人比位于第20百分位的同伴收入要多出10%。這相當于多上一年學所能增加的額外收入的40%（感謝華盛頓郵報的數(shù)據(jù)）。 根據(jù)該報告，對于“逃學生”弗瑞斯?巴勒這樣的人而言，“建立積極的人際和社會關系的技巧以及調(diào)整自己以適應社會形勢需求的能力”可能會轉(zhuǎn)化為和同事以及工作中的客戶之間的良好關系。 研究人員評判一個學生是否受歡迎是基于有多少同學將其視為朋友。年紀大些、更聰明的學生，以及來自溫暖家庭環(huán)境的學生通常社交等級更高。 不過，能在豪宅中舉行未成年派對或是開豪車上學對于提升受歡迎程度并沒多少幫助。家庭財富對于學生的受歡迎程度只起到“很小的作用”。 至于本國的人氣女學生們長大后是否也能享有同樣的收入優(yōu)勢就不得而知了——研究人員將分析對象限制在4000名男生內(nèi)。他們也沒有將受歡迎學生與朋友的關系是否親密的因素考慮在內(nèi)。 該報告對于人格特質(zhì)沒有做深入研究，并繞開了成群結(jié)隊的校園小混混這類人群。不過去年的一項獨立報告發(fā)現(xiàn)，老好人一般比沒那么友善的同事掙得少。 芝加哥大學的加布里埃爾?康提、就業(yè)研究所的格利特?穆勒以及埃塞克斯大學的安德里亞?加里爾蒂和史蒂芬?普德尼共同編纂了這份威斯康星研究報告。 相關閱讀 （中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 陳丹妮 編輯：Julie） |
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Vocabulary: Gleek: Glee《歡樂合唱團》粉絲的稱呼，這里用來形容受歡迎的樂團學生 dork: 呆子 bode well: 是好兆頭 oddball: 怪人 Napoleon Dynamite: 電影人物，他和大人物同名，但他只是愛達荷鄉(xiāng)下的一名普通高中生。 blackboard jungle: 黑板叢林（指城市學生經(jīng)常打架、秩序混亂的頑童學校） totem pole: 圖騰柱；等級 delve: 探究 |
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