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hallolelast Saturday at 7:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

The smartest aren't uniformly distributed across the Earth.


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array_key_firstlast Saturday at 11:24 PM

They almost certainly are, at least before we account for education. Education is, of course, not uniform.

But... the US also has not the best education, so.

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jedberglast Saturday at 8:00 PM

That's true. It is possible that the smartest 5% are all here in the USA. But it is statistically unlikely that's true.

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