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So if intelligence has a negative correlation with creativity than how do we have people like Conan O'Brien or Quentin Tarantino? This just feels like way too much of a blanket statement backed by faulty logic. Harvard, for example, has some really famous creative alumni, so did they admit average intelligence students? Or are they really not that creative?


> So if intelligence has a negative correlation with creativity than how do we have people like Conan O'Brien or Quentin Tarantino?

I don't think you understand what “correlation” means: it doesn't imply a fixed relationship that has no individual-to-individual variation.


Spot on and I just escaped a company that hired a junior dev as their lead. It was horrendous. I don't want to call out the junior to management because he has kids but he's really screwing up their product and they don't even realize it because they know nothing about technology


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