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Re:Brain surgeons and rocket scientists no brighter than the... by graecea on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:26AM (#29549826)
Abilities are not normally distributed but power law distributed (a tiny elite of skilled people and a fat tail that represents the unskilled mass). This is one of the shortcomings of IQ (which is coerced into a normal distribution) and its purported ability to 'predict' real-life abilities.
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Re:Brain surgeons and rocket scientists no brighter than the... by gary_0 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:50AM (#29550305)
I'm not talking about acquired skill, I'm talking about inherent ability, which is normally distributed due to genetics, evolution, and metabolic limitations. (To argue otherwise leads us on the slippery slope towards eugenics.)
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