BillyOblivion comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

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Comment author: BillyOblivion 05 October 2010 04:58:09AM *  4 points [-]

Both can be power-law or Gaussian depending on your "perspective".

There are roughly as many people with a IQ over 190 as there are people with an income over 1 billion USD per annum. By roughly I mean an order of magnitude.

Generally IQ is graphed as a Gaussian distribution because of the way it's measured--the middle of the distribution is defined as 100. Income is raw numbers.

(edited to move a scare quote)