I wrote > One measure of 'success' is income. Here, I have seen studies that > show a curvilinear relationship between IQ and income, largely because > the highest paying jobs (CEO and the like) are usually taken by people > with modestly high IQs (in the 130 - 140 range, IIRC). And the highest > IQ people often enter professions that are NOT that high paying (e.g. > academia and research), but which offer other rewards
John Kulig wrote <<< I'd love to see a reference or two here. No doubt it's not perfectly linear, but I'd be surprised if it's not monotonic. There are a lot of people bright people working in the "private sector" - after all, that's where the money is! >>> I wish I had references - I remember reading it in some scholarly journal, but I read it years ago, and I don't remember where. Sorry I don't deny that there are some very bright people in the private sector. And certainly the people who are most successful in business have IQs higher than average. But this relationship (at least in the corporate world) flattens out above IQ around 130, and even declines at very high IQs (although it's hard to be precise because of small N). And there are other professions which are NOT partiulcarly high paying which DO attract people with very high IQs. Interesting discussion! Peter Peter L. Flom, PhD Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core Center for Drug Use and HIV Research National Development and Research Institutes 71 W. 23rd St www.peterflom.com New York, NY 10010 (212) 845-4485 (voice) (917) 438-0894 (fax) . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
