I agree that high IQ is not needed for success. And for many, it is an impediment.
But there is certainly no correlation between low IQ and success.
I agree that high IQ is not needed for success. And for many, it is an impediment.
But there is certainly no correlation between low IQ and success.
Morningstar (02-01-2013)
Of course there is. Higher IQ has been positively correlated with success both in school and in professional life. Your intelligence is also at least partly inherited from mommy and daddy. I know that frightens you but that's not my problem. In any case, no one suggested that effort/hard work is not also positively correlated with success. I'm not interested in the kind of scientific obscurantism you seem compelled to engage in and I see nothign good coming from this conversation.
It's called the Flynn Effect. I know all about it. Not sure what you are trying to say though.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
IQ tests and intelligence tests in general are widely used and have been gradually improved for over a century now. That is to say, criticism has been listened to and acted upon but the very idea that intelligence can be tested and, worse still, that it's at least partly inherited is profoundly disturbing to some progressives.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Of course it it inheirited. Some people are born very smart, some very dumb and a whole lot more in between.
Mister D (01-31-2013)
The problem is that IQ tests don't always measure those things that allow people to succeed. Some people with very high IQs have absolutely no social skills, often leading to poor success outcomes. Some people with very high IQs are the most successful serial killers on the planet. A limited definition of success. Some people with moderate IQs are very successful because of those skills not measured in IQ tests. In this world, popularity is more a guarantee of success than intelligence.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Peter1469 (02-01-2013)
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist