Eugine_Nier comments on How valuable is it to learn math deeply? - LessWrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 12 October 2013 04:55:21AM -1 points [-]

Incidentally, is there even any empirical evidence that intelligence is normally distributed in any concrete sense?

Comment author: private_messaging 12 October 2013 07:35:07AM *  3 points [-]

I don't think any existing measure could be Gaussian with any sort of accuracy at tail ends, because there you need too large sample size to norm the test & generally, the approximate Gaussian you get due to many random additive factors deviates by huge factors from Gaussian at the tail ends. Bulk of norming of a test comes from average people.

Ditto for correlations between IQ and anything. Bulk of reported correlation comes from near the mean.