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Re:Natalie Portman - Scientist by danssig on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @04:52AM (#2279022)
I think the issue here is that you're saying "if person A is good at math person B may never be able to get as good at math". This I would agree with, but I think person B might be able to get better in some area than person A ever could.

Equal in that sense, not identical.

Re:Natalie Portman - Scientist by roel_v on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @04:28PM (#2281411)
Not necessarily. I don't see a reason why person B would have to have something he's better at than A, except maybe statistical - there are millions of things a person can be good at, so the chances he's worse than the other in all things are very small.

But then still, it's entirely possible that person A is better at many more things than person B. So 'equal' as in 'A and B are the best in an equal amount of things', I don't see any reason why it would be so.