[ExI] The downsides of high IQ

[William Flynn Wallace]

Don't bet the house on any three point difference in IQ.  It is well within
the range of error.  In fact, if retested, the percentage of people whose
scores would change by more than three points is very high.  The standard
error of measurement for the Weschler IQ test is about three.  However,
that is an average.  In fact, as the score departs more and more from 100
the error gets greater and greater.

Three IQ points is trivial and is likely not to be the cause of anything
other than test unreliability. Bill W

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:25 AM, rex <rex at nosyntax.net> wrote:

> BillK <pharos at gmail.com> [2015-04-14 08:32]:
>
>> The BBC has an article up
>> <http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150413-the-downsides-of-being-clever>
>>
>> (The summary is that high IQ doesn't help much. It is a tool that can
>> be used for good or bad).
>>
>
> Group social outcomes are very sensitive to IQ. The graphic at the URL
> below shows dramatic differences in various social outcomes associated with
> three-point IQ changes.
>
> http://www.nosyntax.net/cfwiki/index.php/IQ_Prediction_and_Society
>
> Who would guess that a "mere" 3-point IQ boost is associated with about
> a 30% lower number of high school dropouts, or that a 3-point decline is
> associated with about a 15% increase in the number of men prevented from
> working by health problems?
>
> -rex
> --
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> themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions,
> and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined."
>   --B de Spinoza
>
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