>>13515313>>13515940This is honestly the answer.
I thought I read somewhere that when IQ was developed that it was psychometrician's attempt at quantifying life success. Like they would take successful people, test them with some questions, and then try to isolate questions that leant themselves towards predicting life success.
Now IQ tests are highly math/pattern based....which makes sense in the current job market?? Engineers/computer scientists/anyone who can think critically is bound to have a nice, middle-class (if not upper middle class life).
If IQ is truly a metric that defines your potential to be successful in life, then that should be the metric that we judge people. Current IQ tests are likely not sensitive to many people's actual level of intelligence. There are plenty of mathematicians that are able to score fairly highly on IQ tests, but likely live unfulfilling lives. Meanwhile there are engineers, lawyers, even tradesman who have fulfilling social, and family lives, as well as being experts in their fields.
Being able to be "successful in life" has to be the hardest intellectual pursuit. In popular culture I think this means being well developed in your social, familial, and career lives. This is the hardest thing to pursue, and requires the most responsibility and intellectual capability.
