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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by ido on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:41AM (#21256913)
I believe intelligence (or whatever IQ supposedly measures) has fairly severely decreasing marginal value once you get above median (it's important to have "enough" but not that important to have "a lot").
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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by meshenna on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:25AM (#21259432)
Right. The further away you drift from the median, the more difficult life gets in certain aspects. Drift far enough and it becomes impossible to fit in society at large, which is a huge penalty. This is true for all kinds of things, not just IQ. Personality traits, for instance.
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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by ido on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:03AM (#21268101)
The sort of rational/analytical (for lack of a better work) intelligence that people talk about is also just not that well compensated/required: you basically need enough to not get scammed & do skilled work, but the best paid people around are businessmen not nuclear physicists and theoretical mathematicians.
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