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The people most likely to go on to graduate school are, on average, the most introverted. It takes a long time to learn to function well with other people. Perverse, then, that graduate school, esp. in North America, is intended to train people to be teachers, admins, and people-people by way of several years of researching all by your lonesome. (This realization was courtesy of fjm.)