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IQ itself seems to be a highly flawed construct, more like an emergent property of multiple trait than a trait-in-itself.

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People I know who scored higher than me in general IQ have trait distributions so alien to mine it's almost weird.

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A more interesting possibility is that IQ measures a cluster of traits up to a threshold, past which more factors are involved.

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I know the approximate IQs of several friends of mine. Some proximates I can easily relate to, intellectually. Others feel entirely alien.

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Feels like whatever is driving the performance of their intelligence is not, broadly speaking, the same as for me.

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It seems the further out to the edges you go, the higher the variation.

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My hypothesis is it's not just normal trait variation, but the influx of additional factors - sort of disinhibitors for cognitive power.

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Do you mean in relation to high IQ or meditation?

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IQ in particular. E.g.

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mentioned my empathy as being a peculiar multiplier for certain kinds of abilities. Tempted to agree.

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Detachment seems to have a similar delimiting property. Can't think of another reason why sociopaths are more intelligent than avg. pop.

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In the context of meditation, this might mean that meditation aimed at different areas may make certain ppl more intelligent, but not others

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Or more precisely, certain kinds of meditation can improve certain aspects of intelligence for some people and not others (how conclusive!)