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I hate it when people talk about IQ.

Some facts:

The location, inherited wealth, race, and schooling are more important as factors in determining income than IQ.
>Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert (2002). "The Inheritance of Inequality". Journal of Economic Perspectives

IQ tests do not measure the full scope of mental ability because they fail to assess rational thought, which is central to happiness and fulfillment.
>Stanovich, Keith E. (2009-01-27). What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought (1 ed.). Yale University Press.

There is NOT one single one-dimensional variable that accounts for all correlations among any intelligence tests which qualifies as an "objective definition" of intelligence.
>Psychometrics of Intelligence. K. Kemp-Leonard (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 3, 193–201
>Famous artefacts: Spearman's Hypothesis. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive / Current Psychology of Cognition, 16, 665–698


In the "Terman Study of the Gifted" (a longitudinal IQ-Study, from 1921 till today) pupils were selected to be studied.
Two pupils who were tested but rejected because of low IQ scores were:
-William Shockley; Co-inventer of the transistor who got the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956, and whose former employees started "Silicon Valley"
-Luis Walter Alvarez; American experimental physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. "One of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century." (American Journal of Physics)

"It seems clear that these data powerfully confirm the suspicion that intelligence is not a sufficient trait for truly creative achievement of the highest grade.""
> Eysenck, Hans (1998). Intelligence: A New Look.

"At any rate, we have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated"
>Terman, Lewis Madison; M. H. Oden (1947). Genetic Studies of Genius: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group (4 ed.). Stanford University Press