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wting on June 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses

There are diminishing returns for being more than one or two standard deviations of intelligence above average IQ.

hitchhiker999 on June 2, 2014 [–]

Yep. At least as far as being compatible with the rest of humanity.

Or you could be the 'lucky' one who gets carted around as some genius for 'all to see'

ie: Unless you want to sit in a cave and wire yourself to a computer, an IQ in the top .00001% is useless for being happy on Earth.

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