To clarify the question: I agree that there is variation in talent and that some very talented people can do things most could never. My question is, if you look at the distribution of talent among normal people, and then check how many standard deviations out our savant candidate is, then what’s the chance at least one person with that talent would exist? Basically, is this just the normal right tail that’s expected from additive genetic reshuffling, or an “X-man”.
To clarify the question: I agree that there is variation in talent and that some very talented people can do things most could never. My question is, if you look at the distribution of talent among normal people, and then check how many standard deviations out our savant candidate is, then what’s the chance at least one person with that talent would exist? Basically, is this just the normal right tail that’s expected from additive genetic reshuffling, or an “X-man”.