How does your IQ affect your future?

Any sites I've come across seem to have dubious credentials.

I did the Mensa test years ago - IQ 148. I could have joined but thought the whole idea was silly - I was just curious.

Career wise, I'm doing "OK". A guy I went to school with was fairly academically challenged - borderline special needs I would have said: he now runs a successful business.

Charm, trust, resourcefulness and of course hard work, can often serve you better than IQ. I want to hang onto mine of course, but I think it's overrated.
 
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Any sites I've come across seem to have dubious credentials.

I did the Mensa test years ago..
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I remember reading somewhere that Mensa itself has some dubious credentials!

In the 1970's there was a series of books called "Boost your IQ". I remember enjoying the tests and watching my IQ increase weekly!

I remember reading somewhere that standard IQ tests are culturally loaded. For instance if you are from the west living rooms are rectilinear but if you come from the amazon rainforest living rooms are curvilinear. In other words the notion of straight lines and 90degree bends is embedded in our culture but not on others.
 

Yes - this is true. There is no one standard test that would work for everyone worldwide, but the Mensa ones would tend to be fine for most westerners.

The whole thing is a bit of an exercise in superiority IMO, you cant take just IQ to the exclusion to all other human traits and declare it to be the key factor in success in career. Charisma, good social skills, good time keeping, good organisational skills, good manners etc....all these things matter as well. As well as a good dollop of plain old good luck.
 
I think the whole "everyone came from Africa" theory has been given a bit of a shock over the last few years.

The "Flores man" discovery has thrown a lot of previous research out the window.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/28hobbit.html?scp=1&sq=floriensis&st=cse

What do people do in Mensa for fun by the way? It always seemed to me to be a very bizarre organisation to join.

For the record I never did an IQ test, but I got a B in Hons Irish so I hope that counts. I must have had a high Emotional Quotient to be able to extract something educational from Peig.
 
how does he get that Shakespeare has an IQ above 174 when it was only developed in 1912??
 
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