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pianoforte611 comments on Could you tell me what's wrong with this? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: pianoforte611 15 April 2015 02:51:44PM *  0 points [-]

If I understand, you are attempting a "proves too much" argument with height, however, this is irrelevant, if height is predictive of income then this is an interesting result in itself* (maybe tall people are more respected) and has no bearing on whether IQ is also predictive of income. I agree that IQ probably doesn't scale indefinitely with success and power though. The tails are already starting to diverge at 130.

*there is a correlation