[nkurz]

I wonder how much correlation there is between answers to this question in 8th grade and "life success". We can define life success in many ways, including lifetime income, number of offspring, and overall happiness.

My guess would be that the young pedants who refuse to answer the question, saying "not enough information", do worse on average for each of these metrics than their more compliant but completely wrong peers.

(I would have been one of the young pedants)