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When psychologists talk about exceptional intelligence, the conversation almost always gravitates toward IQ. Our instinct to default to the measurable, scoreable, and rankable quantity is understandable.

However, decades of cognitive science have assembled a case for a different kind of mind entirely: one that doesn’t show up cleanly on standardized assessments, one that is incredibly difficult to cultivate, and one that may be more predictive of real-world creative impact than raw processing speed. Researchers sometimes call it integrative intelligence, and it’s the rare capacity to think fluently across unrelated domains and build something new at the intersections.

The main private commuter lines are just as good or better than JR, and not more expensive (rural JR seems worse anyway, eg in Mie Kintetsu seems better than JR. But I was only there breifly). But in the UK everyone says it's rubbish because of privatisation. Though Germany is also bad but I think that's public. I assume it's more complicated and about management and stuff.