Yes, the author treats high IQ as some extraordinarily rare unicorn event, when in fact you would expect to if find reliably if you look at enough people. e.g. "Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is."
They think Einsteins IQ was around 120, which they think is "Indeed very high!". An IQ of 120 is 10% of the general population. If you sort people, an IQ of 120 might be on the low end for some groups/teams.
If you put 1000 people in a room, you would expect to find 4 "geniuses" with IQ over 140.
They point to data that the average IQ in one Phd program had an average IQ of 140 "doesn't make sense".
In fact it is almost exactly what you would expect. 1% of americans get PhDs, 1% of americans have IQ over 135, so 140 is about what you would expect.
The way they approach IQ suggests they dont appreciate how a normal distribution works.
