10-02-2022, 04:20 PM
Fwiw, the reason I haven't said more about compassion/decent character is that, while it is important, the bar is set a little lower. People who are compassionate enough to make law-abiding citizens are rather common, meanwhile, the point of diminishing returns for intelligence is much, much higher. A 100 IQ person has several times more opportunities that someone whose IQ is 85, a 115 IQ person has substantially more, 130 substantially more still, and even into the 140s (147 is 1 in 1000), additional intelligence is an asset. Groundbreaking scientists, tech entrepreneurs, surgeons, etc need to have incredibly high IQs, and even for lower positions like lawyer, doctor, etc, it's generally easier to get by with a 130 IQ than to scrape by with 120.
Yes, you are probably over-endowed for most activities with an IQ or 160, but that's.....4 standard deviations above the mean. In other words, less than 1 in 31,000 people.
Yes, you are probably over-endowed for most activities with an IQ or 160, but that's.....4 standard deviations above the mean. In other words, less than 1 in 31,000 people.
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