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		Broken_Hippo on Sept 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adul... I also very highly doubt a very high IQ is predictive of science success - those are simply the folks we hear about because it is more popular than bragging that a philosopher or a musician is such. All three can be brilliant, but their minds simply work in different ways from each other.

vasilipupkin on Sept 19, 2016 [–]

Very high iq is certainly correlated with science success and predictive of it to a degree. That degree is not 100%, it's probably less than 50%

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