Reborn Relic
Damn American Cowboy
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I wouldn't go by history. Those folks' types are speculative. In fact, I'd wager that there's a circular loop in many of those cases -- "Oh, Diogenes was a profound thinker, so he's probably an N." [...] "Well, Diogenes is an N, which is why he's a profound thinker." (Also, don't go for self-serving bullshit garbage like this.)
The best resources are hard stats and studies. This particular study did a cool lil' MANOVA and also clearly lays out its samples' age ranges, gender, race, etc. Lots of other studies are worth checking out. There are also nice and pretty tables/graphs out there, such as
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So is "Gifted" according to the Kaufman test 120?
Actually even then I'm not sure this would correspond to the numbers of people scored as gifted in normal IQ tests, but I'm feeling lazy so enh.