Okay, maybe there aren't other examples quite as good as him, but a few of these people surely come close.
Or we could simply point out that with average IQs in the 70s and 80s, average mathematician IQs closer to 140s - or 4 standard deviations away, even in a population of billions we still would only expect a small handful of Ramanujans - consistent with the evidence.
Yes, but I'm not sure all of the populations working in cotton fields and sweatshops had such a low average IQ. (And Gould just said “people”, not “innumerable people” or something like that.)
(And Gould just said “people”, not “innumerable people” or something like that.)
Did you mean innumerate people?
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