On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Peter wrote:

>> There doesn't appear to be the slightest relationship
>> between being having a high IQ score and being
>> successful in life.
>
> Actually the relationship with wealth seems to be *inverse*. More
> exactly it seems that average people are wealthiest and happiest.

Sources?  If we're going to get into the IQ debate and people are
going to make assertions like the above, I'd really like to see
references rather than just "I've heard."  For instance, I've
heard (From Jerry Pournelle, NOT what I consider a particularly
reliable source) that there was a POSITIVE correlation between
IQ as measured by standardized tests and wealth in latter life.
So now we reports of at least three different studies, spanning
all possible outcomes: negative, zero, or positive correlation
with wealth...  Attach to your favorite political agenda as
appropriate...

I would assumes that the broader one defines "intelligence", the
less likely it is to correlate with anything.  It's all very well
to come up with language-neutral, culture-neutral, fully objective
measures of "intelligence", but that doesn't remove the language,
culture, and subjective aspects of all the things (success, wealth,
school performance, happiness, etc) that one might hope to
correlate intelligence WITH.

BillW
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