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If you are good at one intelligence task does it make you more likely to be good at most others (i.e., are intelligence tasks positively correlated to each other)?
Note: This is a section of a longer article. To go to the start, click here . Yes! The positive manifold refers to the empirical...
Sep 21, 20243 min read


Is IQ normally distributed (i.e., is it really a ‘bell curve’)?
Note: This is a section of a longer article. To go to the start, click here . Yes, in our dataset IQ was approximately normally...
Sep 21, 20242 min read


Does IQ predict outcomes only on the "left" side of the IQ distribution (i.e., for people of below average IQ)?
Note: This is a section of a longer article. To go to the start, click here . No. Following some claims that circulated in the...
Sep 20, 20245 min read
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