“That is, do the people who score at the top on standardized tests and then turn up at the fancy universities actually have a superior level of reasoning and rationality that they can apply to solving the problems of the world?”
Absolutely yes. Indisputably.
They arrive that way and leave stupid.
“You don’t get to go there unless you are at the very top of the top of intelligence.”
And that is pure bullsh!t.
No reason to even read the rest.