Many smart people fool themselves in interesting ways thinking about this sort of thing. And of course, when predicting general intelligence based on IQ, remember to account for return to the mean: if there’s such a thing as the smartest person in the world by some measure of general intelligence, it’s very unlikely it’ll be the person with the highest IQ.
Many smart people fool themselves in interesting ways thinking about this sort of thing. And of course, when predicting general intelligence based on IQ, remember to account for return to the mean: if there’s such a thing as the smartest person in the world by some measure of general intelligence, it’s very unlikely it’ll be the person with the highest IQ.