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[quote=Anonymous]No no no. Intelligence doesn't correlate with wealth. But I do think it correlates with something -- freedom. And money can buy freedom. But, there are other ways gain freedom as well.

My husband and I are both smart -- former National Merit Scholar finalists (so scores in the top 1 percent), other tests (IQ) correlate to that. We are also not wealthy (he works for a non profit and I'm a writer) and don't have much desire to be wealthy. but we both do exactly the kind of work we want to do, have a big impact, and have figured out how to raise children in a nice house in the city on our income. Maybe we are able to apply our intelligence to our lives in ways that allow us to see opportunities where others might not. (Like our house -- we looked at probably 40 houses, but We also found one that was way underpriced (one very blurry photo, owner landlord who was eager to sell quickly, no open houses and hardly any opportunities to see it) but high quality... We knew the things we had to change were not expensive (kitchen and bathroom) so we were able to jump on something that a lot of people overlooked. it was honestly probably underpriced by $200,000, and now it was worth literally triple what we bought for). So we use our intelligence in those kinds of ways often. [/quote]

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