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Monday, 2002 August 26, 01:41 — futures, psychology

absolute or relative?

It’s a good bet that the twenty or thirty of you who read this are brighter than average. (At least it’s always safe to say that, eh?) Suppose that a magic pill makes everyone 3±1 times smarter. What would it be like for one of us, after treatment, to find ourself less bright than the new average?

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