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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IQ and success in life a strongly correlated, but more at the lower end of the spectrum than the bottom.  [b]Most professional-class people just don't interact with people at the lower end of the spectrum, so they tend to think of average intelligence people when they think "low IQ," which does nothing to illustrate how important IQ is to life success at the lower end of the spectrum[/b].  Prisons are full of people with low IQ, though certainly not everyone in prison has low cognitive ability.  So are crappy jobs with low pay.  [/quote]
This is a good point.  I have an advanced degree in STEM; everyone I work with has at a minimum a masters degree in a STEM field.  The vast majority of them have never worked with truly stupid people.  I worked at fast food restaurants, construction site and other jobs like that growing up; there were some astoundingly stupid people in these jobs. Some were pretty sharp, but those people generally moved into roles with more responsibility pretty quickly.  I remember one kid from the country that had to beg money from charity to buy food and clothing for his kid because he knocked up his girlfriend.  He spent the majority of it on new tires for his 8mpg muscle car that he drove 60 miles round trip to work each day and constantly did burnouts with.  He was just an idiot.[/quote]

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