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Aug 18, 2026
How smart was Sherlock Holmes's arch enemy Moriarty?
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Statistician Garth Zietsman asks how intelligent someone would need to be to become a real world Moriarty, a criminal mastermind who consistently escapes justice. Using Bell Curve data and US serial killer statistics, he estimates that evading a single murder charge takes roughly the cognitive ability needed to finish junior college, while getting away with three murders is somewhat harder than earning a basic degree. He puts the number of genuinely genius-level killers in the US at around a doz
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