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Rocket science and brain surgery are among the most difficult professions, so people working in them must be super intelligent, or are they? Find out why you (yeah, you!) could be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon if you wanted to! -- Sources: Inga Usher et al. (2021): “It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery”—“It’s a walk in the park”: prospective comparative study.” British Medical Journal / Giovanni Sala, Alexander P. Burgoyne, et al.(2017):"Checking the “Academic Selection” argument. Chess players outperform non-chess players in cognitive skills related to intelligence: A meta-analysis." Intelligence.
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