Link Found Between Dyslexics, Small Business Owners

New York Times:

It has long been known that dyslexics are drawn to running their own businesses, where they can get around their weaknesses in reading and writing and play on their strengths. But a new study of entrepreneurs in the United States suggests that dyslexia is much more common among small-business owners than even the experts had thought.

The report, compiled by Julie Logan, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Cass Business School in London, found that more than a third of the entrepreneurs she had surveyed -- 35 percent -- identified themselves as dyslexic. The study also concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to delegate authority, to excel in oral communication and problem solving and were twice as likely to own two or more businesses.

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Comments

[Justinpassing]

03:52 PM on 12/07/2007

Oh thank god, i thought for a moment there it was going to say there was a like between dyslexia and us nubby fingered pencil grapplers.