Ahh yeah, the expert noticer guy, I've heard of him.

> deeply dysfunctional wierdos

The problem with IQ tests is when you get up into the top percentiles, you end up with a lot of people whose brains just happen to be really good at solving those particular patterns - but really bad at pretty much everything else.

Intelligence is multi-dimensional, so the best engineer is probably not the best negotiator. But there is a clear correlation, so someone with an 80 IQ is probably not going to be much good at anything. But at the extremes you get freaks because of course you do, you're selecting a few outliers from a large population...