That does make a lot of sense. I too have seen that stat before and I always thought it was strange that someone who didn’t naturally thrive in an academic environment would want to make academics their career. (The way most articles use the stat makes it sound as if people who weren’t that great in school flock towards education, where it probably makes more sense to read it as, ‘people who do great in school flock away from education’). If education and engineering were equally well compensated and valued, the measurements might come closer together since education would be able to keep a large portion of the top-scoring students.