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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by andrelaszlo on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:18AM (#11086695)
Are you referring to these Bell curves? :P

http://www.slideshare.net/terriko/how-does-biology-explain-t...

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by evanpw on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:46AM (#11086806)
I think the GP is referring to differences in standard deviation, not mean, which causes the larger-deviation population to dominate at both the left and right tails.
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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by Lawtonfogle on Friday February 12, 2016 @11:09AM (#11088194)
I'm not saying the theory is right or wrong, only that people seem to have a much harder time understanding a theory based off of same means but different standard deviations than a theory based off of different means.
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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by da1 on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:48AM (#11086813)
Totally correct.
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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by da1 on Friday February 12, 2016 @08:55PM (#11092045)
Not one mention of variance in that presentation.

The author is either ignorant or just dishonest.

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