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Flaws in those who are brighter also tend to be more visible, in my experience.
Could you elaborate on that? EDIT: as in, you'd think a brighter person would be better at hiding 'abnormalities'.
IQ != intelligence again... IQ != intelligence Reading through the comments I feel this needs to be expounded on. IQ is a barely useful metric in predicting achievement or success. IMO thought structures and habits of thinking can be much more applicable in reality than a high IQ, leading to higher "intelligence" despite low IQ. See: Richard Feynman, idiosyncratic thinking ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8sVailoL…
IQ is a barely useful metric in predicting achievement or success. This has somehow become the standard wisdom, and it's just wrong. IQ is highly predictive of a wide range of outcomes; see for example https://www.vox.com/2016/5/24/11723182/iq-test-intelligence . That's just correlation, which could happen even if IQ is really just a function of your socioeconomic environment or other things that are not actual intel…