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gruezyesterday at 11:47 PM1 replyview on HN

>but is that generally “more intelligent?”

Contrary to popular belief, being intelligent in one thing does correlate with being intelligent at other things[1]. For doctors, the comparison with private equity (MBAs?) might be close, but it's not hard to imagine the targets of other PE rollups have owners that are more average in intelligence, think plumbing or roofing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)


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tbrownawtoday at 12:09 AM

DISREGARD THIS, I CAN'T READ TODAY

> Contrary to popular belief, being intelligent in one thing does correlate with being intelligent at other things[1].

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

Which section of that very long article are you claiming supports your assertion?

Here's a bit from the start of the "Concept" section:

>> In a famous research paper published in 1904,[8] English psychologist Charles Spearman observed that children's performance measures across seemingly unrelated school subjects were positively correlated. The consistent finding of universally positive correlation matrices of mental test results (or the "positive manifold"), despite large differences in tests' contents, has been described as "arguably the most replicated result in all psychology".[9]

That explicitly contradicts your assertion.

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