Very few people understand this. It's why it's very hard to understand how normal people think wrt politics.

While "normal people" often have crude political opinions, the stupidest political takes often (usually?) come from high IQ, well educated, people.

And among those are also the ones with real influence and power to promote and/or enforce them.

> Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130.

This seems pretty reasonable, but once you start to get to know people a bit...

Then you realise that trying to quantitatively test intelligence only goes so far :D

The road to hell is paved with smart people who think they can become experts in something just by reading some blog posts and thinking about the subject for a few hours. As one example, see successful poker players who become amateur economists, geneticists and virologists.

30 points higher than the average person on HN!

Ha ha. If anything, HN skews quite high.