C) Given how difficult it is to get into Oxford, even 1 years worth of maturity can make a significant difference.
Why are we discounting this hypothesis? It seems the most plausible to me. IIRC IQ increases until you are 25 or so, and it’s probably a sort of s-curve, meaning that there’s probably at least a couple points of IQ gain over the course of year 17… why wouldn’t that be enough to make a 20% difference?
I’m not discounting it, just saying if we do, it would imply X. I give a couple of suggestions as to how we could resolve whether that’s the case or not at the end.
Why are we discounting this hypothesis? It seems the most plausible to me. IIRC IQ increases until you are 25 or so, and it’s probably a sort of s-curve, meaning that there’s probably at least a couple points of IQ gain over the course of year 17… why wouldn’t that be enough to make a 20% difference?
I’m not discounting it, just saying if we do, it would imply X. I give a couple of suggestions as to how we could resolve whether that’s the case or not at the end.