I suspect that IQ, SAT, and school grades are tests designe… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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I suspect that IQ, SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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I suspect that IQ, SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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