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by yabadabadoes 2404 days ago
The question is really how common each base group is and then how many single field experts each accounts for..

I.e. on one extreme every Expert is a jack of all trades that hasn't reached acknowledgement in more fields. A little absurd, but not as absurd as the other extreme: that all jack of all trades that reach expertise in a field simultaneously get acknowledgement in enough fields to be a Polymath.

The only evidence I see in the article towards that question is the analysis of arts hobbies in Nobel prize winners vs average scientists.