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To be clear, it's not an auto-reject, it's an early warning mechanism.

I see the relationship between MBAs and cluelessness as one of correlation not causation.

If you find a correlation between MBA and cluelessness then I would either doubt your sample size or your methods. Be very very careful in any kind of statistical fashion to allow anecdotal evidence to cloud your opinion.

People who think there's a correlation with MBA's and cluelessness are themselves, just as clueless.

He's not saying MBAs are generally clueless. He's saying that fresh MBA grads are clueless about startups, which is something they haven't been trained for.

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