re: Why Scientists and extremely smart people are usually socialist/leftist

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Not if age appropriate testing was properly used.

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That's what I was trying to say in that they are norm-referenced for that very reason. On any measure of IQ, if you look at raw scores, the 7-year-old with a 130 IQ would have fewer correct than a 25-year-old with a 100 IQ. It's just that the comparison to peers, and the age-based expectations, indicates that that the 7-year-old is well above expectations. Give that 7-year-old that test 18 years later (although there would be update versions), and the score should be much higher than that 25-year-old.