Dreaded_Anomaly comments on Physics grad student: how to build employability in programming & finance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 09 January 2014 02:47:29AM 8 points [-]

This is qualitatively a good point, but quantitatively you should be careful. There are only ~7 people in the world who are 6 sigmas above the mean (using a normal distribution).

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 09 January 2014 05:36:45AM 4 points [-]

Knock one or two points off each interval, and the point stands. But in any case the IQ distribution is likely slightly thick-tailed; it's only Gaussian out to say 140 or so.