Does your IQ score really mean anything?
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Yeah. It predicts academic and job performance quite well. It’s even related to how successful US presidents are.
Via 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior:
IQ tests yield scores that are among the most valid and cost-effective predictors of academic achievement and job performance across just about every major occupation studied—factory worker, waiter, secretary, police officer, electrician, and on and on (Neisser et al., 1996; Sackett, Schmitt, Ellingson, & Kabin, 2001; Schmidt & Hunter, 1998). Dean Keith Simonton (2006) even showed that U.S. presidents’ estimated IQs are good predictors of their success in office, as rated by historians.
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