I feel the need to be pedantic here, because your post makes a couple simplifications in the same direction that skew the results by roughly an order of magnitu

I feel the need to be pedantic here, because your post makes a couple simplifications in the same direction that skew the results by roughly an order of magnitude. 145 is the top three tenths of 1 percent, not the top tenth. The average high school size in the US is 854 students [1]. In an average school, you would expect there to be 2.5 students with 145+ IQ. The largest school in each state is about 5-10x the average size school for that state. Let's call a large school 3x average, then. In a large school, you would expect to find 7.5 students with 145+ IQ, or roughly 2 per graduating year. "About 8" and "Maybe 1" are almost an order of magnitude apart. 1: 2011 Dept of Ed statistics https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/pesschools09/tables/table_05.asp https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/pesschools09/tables/table_05.as...