Allen Downey

Allen Downey: professor emeritus at Olin College, data scientist at PyMC Labs, author of Think Python, Think Bayes, Think Stats and Probably Overthinking It.

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The Tyranny of the Extroverts

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Society rewards extroverts. They get the job, the money, the girl (or boy), and the front page. Fortune 500 companies are run by 499 extroverts, plus Bill Gates. There are 435 extroverts in the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate, two from each state. In fact, the only introvert in the District of Columbia…