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Re:The Fields Medal should return to its roots by Chris2048 on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:19AM (#16358150)
> Based on a wide range of ability testing we see fat tails

What kind of ability? Mathematical? IQ?

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Re:The Fields Medal should return to its roots by Retric on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:16AM (#16358354)
IQ, memory etc, in uncalibrated tests you see something close to a bell curve in raw scores but more people score very high 180+ than you would get from an actual bell curve. So, many tests are given a max score or compressed at the high end.
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