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I'm very curious what this math pretest looked like, whether it was "proper" high level math or, like, computing some trig problems. Folks who have aptitude with algebra or number theory or topology, I'd expect that to be correlated, but not to rote computational math.



It was arithmetic. The study is n=42 p-hacking nothingness, and then a highly misleading misinterpretation by the junk popsci website.




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