Aaaanyway I haven't had a crude IQ test done but I've had a tailored subset of psychometric tests including subscales from the WAIS from which IQ is derived which indicate my maths skills are above average. The same tests indicated my concentration skills are below average....
Hmm. I haven't put much thought into what professions are a good fit for someone with concentration as a comparative disadvantage.
I would suspect that research, and mathematics research in particular, is a bad bet. Much of a day will be spent just thinking about ideas, and being able to think about the same idea all day long is necessary to reach the end of long and complicated chains of reasoning. The difference between Newton and his contemporaries, for example, seems to have mostly been superior concentration ability on Newton's part, not considerably higher intelligence.
But people use machine learning many other places; you might be able to work as an industrial data scientist or analyst. It's not clear to me whether low concentration ability would be a smaller or larger handicap there.
Ooh my main strengths are vocabulary and verbal abstract reasoning which are apparently greater than 3 standard deviations away from several populations means. Could you reassess possible career paths that might suit those strengths?
Other weaknesses include social cognition and memory. The neuropsychologists reckons the memory thing may be due to lapses in concentration though.
I'm highly skeptical of my verbal abstract reasoning results aince whenever I've done job psychometric tests or related tests when I was in school my verbal abstract reasoning can r...
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