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idk how people 'round here will respond but I've honestly never met another nerdy type (who would post in a forum like this) that would trade IQ points for athletic ability. I've met a couple who would trade at most 5 for some height or a better jawline, however
Probably virtually zero here. Maybe we are just better at thinking thru things. Being a NFL star would obviously be a lot of fun plus money.
Being good at Football and being good at being smart are obviously not exclusive of each other. But for a thought experiment the trade off between one and the other is interesting.
I don’t know why but the WR position in the NFL seems to have a lot of people who can do crazy stuff physically but also seem to be completely dysfunctional outside of football. AB is the best brand. But there are others. Henry Ruggs couldn’t mentally realize that 160 mph in a Ferrari drunk has a significant risks of killing someone and ended up in jail. In the NBA Ja Morant got that too.
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Depends on how much you have to spare. It's a gaussian, so if you're just IQ 120 or something, losing five points means you have hundreds of millions of new intellectual peers to compete against. But if you're, I don't know, IQ 150, going down to IQ 145 means you're still the smartest person in almost any random room. If your ultimate goal is not revolutionizing your field, but living a good life, sacrificing 5 IQ points to add 5 reps to your lifts is probably a fair trade.
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