The richest/most powerful/most successful aren’t generally the smartest (again, excluding a few fields).
That is exactly addressed by the comment you are replying to:
There’s probably less than 10 +6 SD people alive on the earth today, wheras there are ~10 million +3 SD people.
Imagine a world containing exactly 10 people with IQ 190, each of them having 100% chance to become one of “the best”; and 10 000 000 people with IQ 145, each of them having 0.001% chance to become one of “the best”.
In such world, we would have 110 people who are “the best”, and 100 of them would have IQ 145.
Just because they are a majority in the category doesn’t mean that their individual chances are similar.
It’s more that gains from higher g factor beyond +3 SD seem to be minimal/nonexistent in commerce, politics, etc.
Hard science research and cognitive sports are domains in which the most successful seem to be above +3 SD g factor.
I’m not compelled by the small sample size objection because there are actually domains in which the most successful are on average > +3 SD g factor. Those domains just aren’t commerce/politics/other routes of obtaining power.
As best as I can tell, your reply seems like a misunderstanding of my objection?
That is exactly addressed by the comment you are replying to:
Imagine a world containing exactly 10 people with IQ 190, each of them having 100% chance to become one of “the best”; and 10 000 000 people with IQ 145, each of them having 0.001% chance to become one of “the best”.
In such world, we would have 110 people who are “the best”, and 100 of them would have IQ 145.
Just because they are a majority in the category doesn’t mean that their individual chances are similar.
No, I wasn’t directly comparing +6 SD to +3 SD.
It’s more that gains from higher g factor beyond +3 SD seem to be minimal/nonexistent in commerce, politics, etc.
Hard science research and cognitive sports are domains in which the most successful seem to be above +3 SD g factor.
I’m not compelled by the small sample size objection because there are actually domains in which the most successful are on average > +3 SD g factor. Those domains just aren’t commerce/politics/other routes of obtaining power.
As best as I can tell, your reply seems like a misunderstanding of my objection?