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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

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Re: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

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Post by torstenvl »

yorwba wrote: post #20
torstenvl wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mensa is not exceptionally smart. It's 2% of all people. [removed a distracting point about social group size.] Most people are likely to know someone who could qualify for Mensa. Mensa is quite smart, but I wouldn't use the word "exceptional." If you write a method that throws an exception on 2% of all inputs, I think maybe you're doing it wrong. 2% is still too common, in my opinion, to be considered an exception.

You are making quite the assumption there about the number of one's friends and acquaintances.

True, it's an assumption, but my assumption is rooted in Dunbar's numbers.

Re: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

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Post by ajmurmann »

torstenvl wrote: post #21
yorwba wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are making quite the assumption there about the number of one's friends and acquaintances.

True, it's an assumption, but my assumption is rooted in Dunbar's numbers.

Dunbar's Number is about our cognitive ability to keep social relationships, not about how many social relationships people actually have. The later should be expected to vary widely by society, age, where you live etc. I don't understand what military unit sizes tell you about number of friends and acquaintances someone has.

Re: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

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Post by nordsieck »

torstenvl wrote: post #21
yorwba wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are making quite the assumption there about the number of one's friends and acquaintances.

True, it's an assumption, but my assumption is rooted in Dunbar's numbers.

You're assuming that IQs are randomly distributed across relationships. They're not. People are assortative in their associations.

Re: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

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Post by chrisseaton »

ajmurmann wrote: post #26
torstenvl wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, it's an assumption, but my assumption is rooted in Dunbar's numbers.

Dunbar's Number is about our cognitive ability to keep social relationships, not about how many social relationships people actually have. The later should be expected to vary widely by society, age, where you live etc. I don't understand what military unit sizes tell you about number of friends and acquaintances someone has.

Some argue that a platoon or troop is a natural number of men you can get to know well, and a company or squadron the number you can be well acquainted with.

Not saying that’s true, just explaining.

Re: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

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Post by bfuller »

torstenvl wrote: post #21
yorwba wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are making quite the assumption there about the number of one's friends and acquaintances.

True, it's an assumption, but my assumption is rooted in Dunbar's numbers.

that's an upper limit but not a lower

Re: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

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Post by colek42 »

nordsieck wrote: post #27
torstenvl wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, it's an assumption, but my assumption is rooted in Dunbar's numbers.

You're assuming that IQs are randomly distributed across relationships. They're not. People are assortative in their associations.

The assumption that people reading HN are above average intelligence is probably accurate.
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