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by magduf 2447 days ago
>fails to account for the many, many socially maladapted yet gifted people out there

When has anyone ever claimed that being socially adept correlated with IQ? It's long been a trope that geniuses were eccentric and socially mal-adjusted. Even Isaac Newton, centuries ago, was known to be an odd recluse.