Imagine a group of Social-Psychologists conducting a majorctive study on the impact of intelligence on various forms of "success."
A social psychologist would not conduct a major study on success and intelligence without defining what success and intelligence actually is.
Are you saying IQ measure intelligence ? Well serial killer Ted Bundy apparently had an IQ in the 140's which to you is genius level.
But is right to label a guy who used to slit women from throat to vagina intelligent ?
Intelligence is subjetive.
Can you start a fire without matches ? Can you look at the sun and use it as a guidance map ? Can you purify water ? Can skin a wild animal and the fur as clothing ? Do you know how preserve food without a fridge ?
No. Well there are many ppl living in rural parts of the world who can do this with their eyes closed but would more than likely not fair well on an IQ test. But they're dumb. Right ?
Let's say you were in rural Kenya. How long do you think it would be before I came upon your pink and naked body laying in a fen of fern, gasping and shivering, eyes bulging in horror, whilst some poisonous amphibian set atop your chest awaiting your inevitable demise?
Strip away the technology and tools and what can you really do ?
Second question would be what is success ?
You put a MENSA member in a certain environment where a different type of intelligence is needed they would not last a second.
But to you intelligence is fixed and if your can't figure out "
If Jack is taller than Jim and Bob is smaller than Jack and Peter is smaller than Paul" (
or any of them IQ type questions) then your dumb.
Conversely, people living in abject poverty in third world countries devise almost unbelievably complex ways of eking out an existence, and some modicum of dignity, in the midst of dehumanizing conditions. This requires a deep level of intelligence
As for success. Look man.
Donald Trump inherited a couple hundred million dollars worth of assets from his daddy. Mark Zuckerberg attended two of the most expensive and prestigious schools in the USA (Harvard, Phillips Exeter Academy). His success was due to his parents bank account and a bit a luck but had little to do with his intelligence and hard work.
That's how it works.
Everyone from Bill Gates to Warren Buffett needed a substantial amount of money to start up their companies.
Take the average drug dealer born in the ghetto. The same type of person that has the personality and skills to run a criminal entrepreneurship can easily run a legal one, but many will never have the opportunity that will allow them to earn the credentials necessary to do so.
But if IQ is so important and so trustworthy why don't you drive your arguments to it's logical conclusion ? That is why not give all the top positions to those with the highest IQ? Why have elections? Why have job interviews or resumes? Why not have birth licences or sterilization based on IQ?
Until you start talking like that and demanding that everything be based on IQ then you don't believe a word your saying because deep down you know that no human being can be baked down to a number.