On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 07:18:27AM -0700, Bob Axtell wrote:
> Why waste all the time and effort on an IQ test?
> 
> There doesn't appear to be the slightest relationship
> between being having a high IQ score and being
> successful in life.

An interesting study I once saw was a very different relationship...
Namely a babies ability to put off eating a marshmellow now to get more
marshmellow's later. Corrolated over a few decades, that test was a
pretty good predictor of later financial wealth.

Pretty obviously likely of course, if you save $1 as a teenager, with
invested savings you can easilly end up with $50 when you retire...
Which is why my current savings are... er... almost zero...

> In fact, even the relationship showing higher education
> bringing greater wealth over a lifetime is nebulous, because
> the people able to attend college have a stronger financial
> standing anyway, so would be successful whether they actually
> attended class or not.

As it is even my career studies teachers in highschool told you that
getting a PhD was something you should only do for yourself, rate of
return on that one, if you account for the opportunity cost, is
definetely in the negative for most people.

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