The lede to this article is silly. IQ leads to substantial difference between groups, but is not perfectly correlated with success, so that there is still substantial variation between individuals with the same IQ. What is do difficult to understand about this?
> the Termites’ [1,500 pupils with an IQ of 140 or more] average salary was twice that of the average white-collar job.
> Terman concluded that “intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated”.
> Over the course of their lives, levels of divorce, alcoholism and suicide were about the same as the national average.
> Why don’t the benefits of sharper intelligence pay off in the long term?
> the Termites’ [1,500 pupils with an IQ of 140 or more] average salary was twice that of the average white-collar job. > Terman concluded that “intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated”. > Over the course of their lives, levels of divorce, alcoholism and suicide were about the same as the national average. > Why don’t the benefits of sharper intelligence pay off in the long term?
They do pay off on average for certain measures.