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35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Flinn Effect and the Imperfectness of Acutes in Measuring Intelligence

The flinn is telling us more about the imperfectness of acutes in measuring true intelligence than anything else. I'd be urious if you only looked at theoretical physicists whoul we see a flint effect overtime. If icute are really measuring what einstein had, i would argue that there should be more einsteins just by virtue of world population being larger also. And maybe there are. Einstein obviously an epical genius. At the same time, i guess i less subscribe to the great man theory of history.

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