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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To what extent does IQ demonstrate intelligence?  To what extent does it determine one's career and success in life?  Can a person of average IQ become a doctor or a lawyer if they're determined enough?

What IQ is entry level for the Nobel Prize, National Academy of Sciences etc.[/quote]

I saw a chart that tracked outcomes (I.e jail time, ever received food stamps, worked in managerial job, child out of wedlock etc) at each IQ quintile and the differences were amazing.  For example, in the top 20% of IQs, 2% of people had been in jail.  At the lowest 20% that number was 40+%.  Similar differences in the rest, and there seemed to be a clear relationship between IQ and outcomes.

That being said, it’s not determinative; lots of high IQ screwups out there.  Grit and determination will compensate some, but I’d guess it’s nearly impostor someone with a below average IQ (for example 90) to ever be a doctor or lawyer.[/quote]

That's also because IQ scales with nutrition and early parenting.  Language rich houses have [b]higher IQ kids, even if they are adopted.
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IQ needs to be high enough, i.e., average or above.

EQ scales more with success.

Then you need to be lucky and have opportunity.

The best predictor of success is the success of your parents.  Kids make about the same as the home they were raised in, regardless of IQ/EQ.[/quote]

Twin studies refute this.  As long as the adoptive family/house is better than a Romanian orphanage, IQ is innate.[/quote]

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