I wonder how many of commenters (and readers) here, are thinking of themselves as the elite class with the high IQs? Likely, many or most of them are of average or below average intelligence.
And, how intelligent is it to go about life “knowing” you have a higher IQ and go around bragging about it. The way some people have put it is that being white is an automatic qualifier for possessing higher IQ or higher intelligence. Yet, like it’s been pointed out, one can be a genius, while his/her offspring turn could turn out to be average or even below average intelligence.
The intelligence that one is lucky to be born with, does not necessarily lead to a successful career or life. How many high IQ people have ever attained the success of professional athletes? How many, or what percent, of high IQ people have ever reached the success of the “elite” business people with their millions or billions? How many or what percentage of the high IQ people have ever attained high leadership positions in government? BTW, does high intelligence lead to corruption, where they think they can get away with anything?
BTW, why does it seem that the subject of high IQ comes up so often on FR?
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The same way the subject of women who divorce their men come up on FR. There are just some people here who have bees in their bonnets.
Have you every met a member of MENSA? The bragging! It was Christopher Hitchens who finally took that organization apart. I knew a member of MENSA and he could barely tie his shoes.
The intelligence that one is lucky to be born with, does not necessarily lead to a successful career or life. How many high IQ people have ever attained the success of professional athletes?
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There are no truer words than this, IQ has nothing to do with success in the real world.
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How many, or what percent, of high IQ people have ever reached the success of the “elite” business people with their millions or billions? How many or what percentage of the high IQ people have ever attained high leadership positions in government? BTW, does high intelligence lead to corruption, where they think they can get away with anything?
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Except for the gimmies, I would venture to say that most of the people in power in Washington are on the right side of the normal curve. at least in the first Standard Deviation.
Do I think that High I Qu leads to corruption? Absolutely and these chapters discuss the moral responsibility that High IQ people have to the rest of the population and to the culture.
Interesting questions. First, what is the criteria for success? Is it just financial, or is there more to it than that?
How many high IQ people have ever attained the success of professional athletes? Considering that a large majority of pro athletes are broke within 5 years of leaving their respective leagues, I would say that a majority of the intelligent people do better than a majority of the pro athletes.
How many, or what percent, of high IQ people have ever reached the success of the “elite” business people with their millions or billions? Considering that the tech elite are also high IQ types, they probably do quite well. Now some of the business type have obtained their success by who they know rather than what they know.
How many or what percentage of the high IQ people have ever attained high leadership positions in government? Are there any statistics out there for this information? Considering that everyone that the Dems run is "the smartest person ever", I think the number would be quite high. /s
BTW, does high intelligence lead to corruption, where they think they can get away with anything? Certainly for high IQ sociopaths. In any event, IQ has nothing to do with morality.