My sister tested high average and grew up to be a medical doctor.
I think there are likely a lot more uber-high-achieving high-average ability people in our world than we would think there are hanging around on forums like this. My parents were both teachers, and they knew the IQs of many of the kids they taught when they recommended them for high-ability programs or when they had the kids placed provisionally in their high-ability classes, as well as knowing a lot of kids in their general-ed-ability classes who didn't qualify for the high-ability classes. They saw, as teachers, many kids who had high levels of motivation work hard and achieve more than the school thought they were capable of when simply looking at IQ scores.
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