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A comment on Relationships between Depression and High Intellectual Potential (2012).

Re:Relationships between Depression and High Intellectual Po... by ap22213 on Sunday May 26, 2013 @04:20PM (#5772296)
honest serious question: do we have evidence that high IQ (beyond say 120 or so) is useful for anything important? Seems like a lot of people seek high IQ, but what's the advantage exactly?
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Re:Relationships between Depression and High Intellectual Po... by doctorstupid on Sunday May 26, 2013 @06:58PM (#5772739)
It's only an advantage if you have such a high IQ. If you didn't, then you wouldn't be interested in the kind of problems that would require it.
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Re:Relationships between Depression and High Intellectual Po... by ap22213 on Sunday May 26, 2013 @11:34PM (#5773302)
Like if maybe some people had such high IQs that they saw problems with people who thought their moderately high IQs were useful.

Sorry, just looking for real data.

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