IQ tests are accurate in some ways and highly INaccurate in others*. For example, the baseball player Yogi Berra would probably score an 80 on your standard IQ test based solely on his malapropisms and verbal dyslexia. But the man was incredibly wise, insightful and intelligent. In fact, I'd rather listen to Yogi Berra than most "geniuses".
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
i would guess that high IQ has a stronger correlation with making fewer shitty life choices than making a lot of money.
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Actually I've met many, many intelligent people in life with high IQs who made the shittiest life choices imaginable. Drugs, dysfunctional relationships, bad career moves, on and on. In fact, if you compare them to the other end of the intelligence spectrum (i.e., blithering idiots) they probably have about the same amount of problems albeit champagne ones. The people in the middle, the so-so smarties, they seem to have less "issues".
*Having said all that I scored 152 on my IQ test when I was seventeen so fuck y'all. LOL