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Think about the sociology of this: would you really expect a Google employee to say "Yes, we are almost all geniuses"?

There is a lot of social pressure to attribute one's success to hard work (except of you're a White male ;-) ), luck, good mentorship, experience, meta-skills etc. rather than intelligence.



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