Comment by cutemonster

> Did you ever consider the possibility that you might be the one living in a bubble?

You're wrong about that, but you couldn't have know. I've lived in far more different places with more different people, than most people you've met.

> innate talent predated IQ tests and twin studies by many millenia

That's why I wrote it hadn't been well studied, not that it hadn't been studied at all.

> You're declaring that

Of course not. I'm not the source.

> incredibly smart people were wrong about their own domains, which is a pretty bold claim to make. What do you have in support of this claim? A fake Einstein quote?

That's from a letter Einstein wrote 1926 to Bohr. He wrote in German, that quote is a paraphrase in English.

Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%E2%80%93Einstein_debates, And, about him being mistaken, quoting that article:

"As mentioned above, Einstein's position underwent significant modifications over the course of the years. In the first stage, Einstein refused to accept quantum indeterminism [...]" -- indicating that, at some points, he had the wrong beliefs, right.

Here's the quote explained further: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5937/why-did-einstei...

> It's true that a number of people have been fooled by twin studies, most notably Steven Pinker, in Chapter 19 of the Blank Slate (did you read it?)

> You see, Pinker ... Bouchard's 1990 ... The Bell Curve's Charles Murray ... thinks ... structurally flawed

No, didn't read that book. Continuing in another comment.