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