Heres one for the narcissist

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13 Aug 2007, 5:14 pm

Here is one for the narcissist who love to stroke themselves and tell us how big their IQ is.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/co ... rich_N.htm

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Study: It doesn't pay to be smart

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Income does weakly correspond to intelligence test scores, he finds, where "a one point increase in IQ test scores is related to an income increase of $346 per year. But at most, that same one-point increase in IQ leads to "a net worth increase of at most $83, but probably zero."

wow hardly evolutionary adaptive.

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13 Aug 2007, 5:20 pm

interesting article, ya, i never saw the correlation between smarts and income myself, i know a stupid person who makes good money, and im the only person where I work with a collage education (many dont even have high school their) and half the year i dont make $hit!

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13 Aug 2007, 5:23 pm

there is a correlation between smarts and happiness..................

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13 Aug 2007, 5:27 pm

You realize IQ tests determine intelligence from society's standards, kind like psychiatry and their view of 'normal'.

I don't think IQ tests are the final determinant on whether someone is intelligent or not. They are great for testing logic and vocabulary skills... For instance, how well would a mathematical savant survive in a cabin in the woods where he has to find his own food etc...

Personally I don't think anyone is truly stupid, just misled.

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13 Aug 2007, 5:29 pm

Aradford wrote:

there is a correlation between smarts and happiness..................

Its inversely related is what I have read. Though the studies were consider unscientific.

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13 Aug 2007, 5:43 pm

Yes I know. I took an IQ test 3 years ago while high on marijuana and scored 152. I don't even want to know what it's at now.

Either way, I live it. I know.

But THERE are many reasons to be happy, even though there are even more reasons to be sad.

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13 Aug 2007, 6:32 pm

You have to be shrewd and smart with money in order to keep on top of your finances and ensure that the cash keeps flowing.

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13 Aug 2007, 8:51 pm

Just saw this on Digg.

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21 Aug 2007, 12:26 pm

It looks like doctors and clerical staff have the narrowest ranges of IQs.

To become a doctor, you have to be REALLY good at taking multiple-choice tests.

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21 Aug 2007, 1:58 pm

pandabear wrote:

It looks like doctors and clerical staff have the narrowest ranges of IQs.

To become a doctor, you have to be REALLY good at taking multiple-choice tests.

One of my chemistry professors mentioned he decided not to goto medical school and become a doctor because it basically would be just memorizations of facts but in chemistry he would still have to
think.

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