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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]do you want a neurosurgeon with an average IQ?[/quote]

How do you know your neurosurgeon doesn't have an average IQ?  At what point is the aspiring neurosurgeon required to take a test?[/quote]

In the case of a neurosurgeon, “hard work” is not going to make up for having an average IQ. Come on.

What is with these people who think that high intelligence doesn’t matter? Sure, you need to work hard no matter what your intelligence, but a person with high intelligence who works hard is always going to do better than a person with average intelligence who works hard. That is just the way life is.

Some people just learn faster without as much repetition as others. They have a better chance of doing well in many fields because they are highly intelligent. That’s who i want operating on me- not the average person who had to work hard and have tutors to get good grades. 
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This. There are a lot of average intelligence, low success people responding on this forum. Of course IQ opens doors that are not available to low IQ people.

Also, the studies by definition only track success by income.  You can be a moron and make $200k these days without too much complication. Sales, real estate, construction.  Lots of jobs that don't require high IQ.  But if we're asking if high IQ is a requirement for certain successful careers (doctor, lawyer, financial analyst, stem phd, etc) then of course a higher IQ is a gating item for those jobs. You don't need a super high IQ, but you're unlikely to be successful in those careers if you're in the bottom half IQ.  But you could have an equally successful career (if you define success by income) by going into sales.

Once you get into the elite realms of those jobs, higher IQ becomes a lot more important, and the people who are merely above average cannot achieve certain level.  I'd even say that the merely bright won't succeed in certain jobs that require very high IQ, despite their hardest efforts.  [/quote]

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