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by Chris2048 3048 days ago
> Based on a wide range of ability testing we see fat tails

What kind of ability? Mathematical? IQ?

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IQ, memory etc, in uncalibrated tests you see something close to a bell curve in raw scores but more people score very high 180+ than you would get from an actual bell curve. So, many tests are given a max score or compressed at the high end.