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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is DC -they are at every school. [/quote]

FFS Lake woebegone again. You realize that kids in the DMV are not inherently smarter than kids elsewhere? [/quote]

The high concentration of wealthy, credentialed people around here suggests that they are.[/quote]
Since when did your bank account measure your intelligence?[/quote]

How wide a range of people have you met in your life? I mean, if you only hang out with fairly bright people, you will see that they have a range of outcomes... but those outcomes will be more positive, on average, then a dumber cohort, and worse, on average, than geniuses.

Here, have a metanalysis:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289606001127

"Decades of research on human mental abilities have demonstrated that the scores of intelligence tests are positively correlated with several desirable outcomes and negatively correlated with several undesirable outcomes. One of the central and personally most relevant desirable outcomes is socioeconomic success (or career success), which is usually measured by the educational level, occupational prestige, and income of an individual in adulthood. Although it is sometimes claimed in popular press and textbooks that intelligence has no relationship to important real-life outcomes (see Barrett & Depinet, 1991, for a review of such claims), the scientific research on the topic leaves little doubt that people with higher scores on IQ tests are better educated, hold more prestigious occupations, and earn higher incomes than people with lower scores (Gottfredson, 1997, Gottfredson, 2003, Jensen, 1980, Jensen, 1998, Schmidt and Hunter, 2004).

Thus, the existence of an overall positive correlation between intelligence and socioeconomic success is beyond doubt. "

I will backtrack the summary a bit: it should say "little doubt that people with higher scores on IQ tests are better educated, hold more prestigious occupations, and earn [ON AVERAGE] higher incomes than people with lower scores", because there are certainly are dumb people who are well-off (e.g. a baseball player) and smart people who are dirt poor (that schizophrenic ranting on a street corner did drugs at Yale), but by the numbers, high IQ are disproportionately high income.

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You spent a lot of effort to miss the point. Data shows that being smarter correlates to having more money, but that data doesn’t prove the reverse. Having money doesn’t necessarily correlate to being smarter. [/quote]

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