Anonymous wrote:I have a staff of 10 and I would guess about half of them have IQs in the 80-90 range. The work in the finance depart of a large company, usually processsing a queue of documents. Purchase orders, paying invoices, processing accounts payable, validating expense reports, simple HR transactions, etc. There are tons of well paying office jobs that can’t be automated yet where people monitor a queue of customer or employee requests and process each item that comes in until the end of their shift. Over time they become experts in a their process. You never notice how not bright / sharp they are until you try to change a process or change the IT system they use.

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this whole thread but DCUM has one of the wealthiest readerships on the web. Wealth of course doesn't necessarily mean intelligence but there is certainly a link (in order to acquire and hold on to money, most people need some intelligence) so there is a skewed population here.

I have an IQ of like 135-140 and I come from a VERY smart family. My mom is crazy smart. And my husband also comes from VERY smart parents. So have smart kids and most of our family is smart. Do I think everyone is smart because I'm around smart people? That would just be confirmation bias. I think the answer is simply that this is a website smart people gravitate towards therefore a disproportionate sample size.

Anonymous wrote:Some of my students have IQs in the 70s and low 80s yet they don’t qualify for IEPs even though they struggle.

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Anonymous wrote:I would guess that my DD's very lovely preschool teachers probably have IQs right around 100. They are very good preschool teachers, but it's a profession where EQ is much more important than IQ.

This info seems to be typical for that profession. I personally chose to have my infant/preschooler spend days with someone with an IQ over 130 to give them the best possible advantage. Me.

So they can be a smart a$$hole?

Yes, that's it, because all SAHM who love caring for their own kids raise assholes. WOH mom wins!

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this whole thread but DCUM has one of the wealthiest readerships on the web. Wealth of course doesn't necessarily mean intelligence but there is certainly a link (in order to acquire and hold on to money, most people need some intelligence) so there is a skewed population here.

I have an IQ of like 135-140 and I come from a VERY smart family. My mom is crazy smart. And my husband also comes from VERY smart parents. So have smart kids and most of our family is smart. Do I think everyone is smart because I'm around smart people? That would just be confirmation bias. I think the answer is simply that this is a website smart people gravitate towards therefore a disproportionate sample size.

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Anonymous wrote:I would guess that my DD's very lovely preschool teachers probably have IQs right around 100. They are very good preschool teachers, but it's a profession where EQ is much more important than IQ.

This info seems to be typical for that profession. I personally chose to have my infant/preschooler spend days with someone with an IQ over 130 to give them the best possible advantage. Me.

So they can be a smart a$$hole?

Anonymous wrote:Things like malnutrition and lead exposure impact IQ. Stress and other ailments can impact IQ. My psych professor said Intake of glucose at a certain timing and dosage was used successfully to manipulate IQ test results.

Imagine if you are an extremely poor kid in a stressful environment. You’re going to focus on survival. Where are calories coming from? Is there a safe place to sleep tonight? It doesn’t lend itself to focusing on developing the very specific thinking skills prized by middle class gatekeepers of academic and intellectual institutions. My high school guidance counselor decided physics wasn’t for me because of my skin color. My mom was a science teacher and ended up teaching me at home.

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Anonymous wrote:I would guess that my DD's very lovely preschool teachers probably have IQs right around 100. They are very good preschool teachers, but it's a profession where EQ is much more important than IQ.

This info seems to be typical for that profession. I personally chose to have my infant/preschooler spend days with someone with an IQ over 130 to give them the best possible advantage. Me.

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Anonymous wrote:I would guess that my DD's very lovely preschool teachers probably have IQs right around 100. They are very good preschool teachers, but it's a profession where EQ is much more important than IQ.

This info seems to be typical for that profession. I personally chose to have my infant/preschooler spend days with someone with an IQ over 130 to give them the best possible advantage. Me.

Anonymous wrote:I would guess that my DD's very lovely preschool teachers probably have IQs right around 100. They are very good preschool teachers, but it's a profession where EQ is much more important than IQ.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is an idea of IQ and jobs. Plenty of great jobs with IQ <100.

When I remodeled my kitchen I had to renew all electrical wiring. The electrician ( an engineer with Masters) was so dumb that half of his work had to be redone - he hooked up the ovens and a dw together and tried to prove to me that it's the code that I can't use it at the same time. I think IQ is very fluid and can't really be measured, especially by profession.