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Re:IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019) by JamesBarney on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:08PM (#23104590)
The article basically says when you look at a 1000 really smart 11 year olds you don't get any Nobel prize winners. Which is a pretty obvious straw man because the base rate of Nobel prize winners is 1 in a million, plus childhoold IQ doesn't perfectly correlate with adult IQ. For instance a group of children with an average IQ of 150 will have an average IQ of 130 as adults.

https://pumpkinperson.com/2015/07/26/anne-roes-study-of-extr...

Basically the average Nobel prize winners have IQ's in the 150's.

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Re:IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019) by empath75 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:35PM (#23104908)
There were two future Nobel prize winners that were excluded from the group he studied because they didn't score high enough.
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Re:IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019) by JamesBarney on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:59PM (#23105243)
Who both also had very high iqs, just not quite high enough at the age of 11 to be included.
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