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> The beauty of repairing gadgets is that as long as they’re not incredibly broken, any generally intelligent person can learn on their own. Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their parts and assembly.

"tell me you have a 120 IQ without telling me you have a 120 IQ"

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I'm very confused. What does this mean?

> Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their parts and assembly.

You're assuming most people have strong reverse engineering skills, but really only a small fraction of the general population has them. sigstoat implies the high IQ people are more likely to have this skill as raw IQ allows them to quickly learn the skill on the job.

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