Re: 'standards' Was: IQ, Why do we transform

[AGarciasim]

In a message dated 4/27/2004 5:29:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 read about this curvilear relationship a while back and believe the U.S. Census was the source.    The Gallup Poll also published an article about the reasons people stay in their jobs or express satisfaction with their jobs and money was not at the top of the list.