Comment on Einstein's Superpowers

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:46:59 GMT

We could quibble a bit about exact rarities -- Einstein was clearly exceptionally bright, but whether he represents 1 in 10e4 or 1 in 10e6 g depends on all sorts of trivia that I don't have good estimates for.

If Einstein represents 1 in 1000, then it would imply that on average the 3 top students in each highschool of 3000 students could be expected to be as "smart as Einstein". Does that sound reasonable to you?

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