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buybuydandavis comments on Article on IQ: The Inappropriately Excluded - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 02 October 2016 10:43:37AM 0 points [-]

Accomplishments?

Did that include being a part of an elite profession?

I think the original article said that smart people accomplished more in a profession, though they were in appropriately excluded.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 02 October 2016 09:41:40PM *  0 points [-]

I think that the main accomplishments studied were degrees, advanced degrees, published academic articles articles, books published, and patents. I believe that they also looked at postdocs and professorships. The article only presented confused data on two professions: professors and physicians. MDs are a very good proxy for being a physician, so SMPY has that covered, too.