Will_Newsome comments on Jul 12 Bay Area meetup - Hanson, Vassar, Yudkowsky - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 12 July 2009 09:48:38PM 0 points [-]

Well that sounds interesting. And fairly terrifying too, given that I'm somewhat shy.

Only two standard deviations above the human average... sounds like you're talking about IQ?

I am talking about IQ. Parenthetically, an IQ 2 standard deviations above the mean is by definition an IQ of 130 which is right about the average for professional computer programmers and some engineering occupations. (Scientific occupations tend to average around 140.)

Comment author: Will_Newsome 23 September 2010 12:45:57AM 1 point [-]

Interesting, where did you find this? I did a Duck Duck Go search and didn't find anything besides charts without citations

Comment author: ata 23 September 2010 08:08:25PM 1 point [-]

Here is a chart with a citation.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 23 September 2010 02:28:36AM 0 points [-]

I do not remember.

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