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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, average IQ means average intelligence. All that means is that the majority of the population has a similar IQ. It does not measure EQ, sociability, resilience, grit, likability or foretell future academic or career success, happiness, earning potential or anything else. So in answer to your post subject: not the be-all, end-all, at all. Not even half the picture. [/quote]

+1. I have a cousin whose IQ is genius level. I mean 99.9 something percentile. He’s also deeply schizophrenic and paranoid. Before that set in during his late 20s, his parents sent him to elite private schools, where he couldn’t fit in socially and became a discipline problem. Ended up with middling academic performance, went to a very average college, dropped out after a year, went to a different one, took years to complete his degree and got flagged as a violent threat to the school at one point. Now he can barely hold a job and thinks intelligence agencies are after him.

He’s still super smart and can do incredible math and consume mass amounts of information quickly. But no one cares. He’s one small step from being homeless.[/quote]

Google, "the law of diminishing returns in IQ". [/quote]

That is unequivocally false. The data indicates that higher IQs are still beneficial even at the extreme upper end of the ability distribution. https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/07/success-ability-and-all-that.html[/quote]

That’s a blog. [/quote]

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