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Comment author: Viliam 05 November 2015 08:22:51AM 1 point [-]

Clarity speaks of himself as stupid

This is only a weak evidence for non-high IQ.

I know a few people who had bad opinion about their IQ, and when I convinced them to take the test, they scored above 130. It's because they believed the stereotype of "high IQ = math prodigy", and they happened to be average at math simply because they focused their lives on something else.

Comment author: ChristianKl 05 November 2015 09:47:17AM 0 points [-]

This is only a weak evidence for non-high IQ.

I haven't implied that it's strong evidence, for me the available evidence was enough to raise the question. The answer to that question matters for whether or not to tell him not to seek a career in machine learning.

I do think that for this purpose the testing that tells him that he's above average in math might be enough.