Which is one of the reasons why blank slatism and IQ denialism are so widespread among academics despite universally available evidence to the contrary.
https://mobile.twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1344248988963364864
The myth of the lone genius is itself a myth rogersbacon.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-… 
The Idiocy of the Average: reasonably intelligent people tend to overestimate how smart everyone else is.
Half of Americans are unable to correctly read a table and do a simple addition/subtraction calculation.
Read more: archive.is/ySvfT
Half of Americans are unable to correctly read a table and do a simple addition/subtraction calculation.
Read more: archive.is/ySvfT
I'm confident that we will solve artificial general intelligence before dysgenics chokes off progress. Nonetheless, this is a serious risk.
https://twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/1425093140189523982
The gloomy prospect of lower IQs for civilization. Flynn 1980 p. 28.
Source: arthurjensen.net/wp-content/upl…
Source: arthurjensen.net/wp-content/upl…
Jordan Peterson - What Kind Of Job Fits Your IQ
"If you want to be the best at what you're doing then having an IQ of above 145 is a necessity."
"Jobs for people with IQs of less than 85 are very very rare."
"If you want to be the best at what you're doing then having an IQ of above 145 is a necessity."
"Jobs for people with IQs of less than 85 are very very rare."
The average health professional is smart enough to learn the practical part of their profession but not smart enough to learn a sufficient amount of probability and statistics along the way: bbc.com/news/magazine-…
https://mobile.twitter.com/kristjanmoore/status/1438808167379525635
Fermi estimated the strength of an atomic bomb by dropping pieces of paper. Gates immediately saw through an attempt to cheat on him with intransitive dice. Von Neumann spoke Ancient Greek at age 6. Tao taught himself to code math programs at age 6.
https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1449386300134526982
"A great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer...The best publicity expert can dream up a stunt that attracts millions more customers than the average one." cnbc.com/2020/09/08/net…
“Von Neumann is compelling evidence, I think, that individual genius is important and influential” unherd.com/2021/11/the-ge…
"intuition is more important than knowledge"
In other words, innate talent is more important than education.
In other words, innate talent is more important than education.
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