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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by karma_vaccum123 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:29PM (#12445331)
> Also, you might do well to assume that a large majority of the people here that you are trying to put down also tested in top percentages in school tests. The audience of YC and HN is self-selected nerds.

Which is exactly why so much of the discussion here is predicated on middlebrow intellectual checkboxes instead of legitimate insight.

But if you want to keep thinking this is some genius society, I can't stop you.

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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by digler999 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:37PM (#12445394)
> middlebrow intellectual checkboxes instead of legitimate insight.

Nice humblebrag about your superior judgement of whats "middlebrow" vs "legitimate".

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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by karma_vaccum123 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:18PM (#12447167)
The post to which I was responding made the absurd claim that technically-minded/introverted individuals who score high on tests can approximate themselves to being geniuses. I really don't think it was much of a reach to ridicule that assertion...given that it is...well, ridiculous.
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