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Not true - there are tons of studies that show otherwise, so I have no idea how this myth still exists. An IQ of 120 is the top ~10%. Here's a 25 year longitudinal study [1] of over 1,500 students that were all in the top 1% and it shows significant differences between the lowest and the highest quartile (who were in the top .01%): > Ability Differences Among People Who Have Commensurate Degrees Matter for Scientific…
I know David Lubinski, one of the investigators in that correlational study, reasonably well. (He and I are alumni of the same school district and same undergraduate university, and have many mutual friends besides meeting each other in conferences from time to time.) It's important to distinguish the claim about the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (of whom my son is one participant) and my claim about mathe…
Would you be able to send me some more info? Email's in my profile.