[techbio]

I just see more personal liberty at the high end and therefore more variance in possible outcomes.

[everybodyknows]

That's a plausible mechanism, within modern liberal society anyway, supporting Taleb's claim:

> ... when they say "IQ works well between 70 and 130" it means: "IQ works well between 0 and ~85, maybe"

[KMag]

And why does higher variance imply a shifted mean?