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Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 18:14

A new study reveals that having a big social circle is good for a child's career as an adult. Each extra friend a pupil had at school, their salary 35 years later was 2 percent higher, as discovered by the Essex University researchers.

"A workplace is a social setting. People have to manage each other and work in teams you can see why social skills would be helpful", The Times quoted Professor Steve Pudney, of the university's Institute for Social and Economic Research, who carried out the research, as saying.

The study involved data collected from a groups of schoolboys were asked to name their three closest friends. The number of nominations was added up, the boys were kept a track of and interviewed at regular basis between 1957 and 2004 in a bid to measure their earnings and relate the figures to the number of friends.

The other factors like intelligence and family income were taken into account.

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