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Originally Posted by wbradley
The IQ topic is a funny one. I had a conversation with a man who originally became very successful from a tech startup. From a very modest background. Anyway, at the time he was in the business of buying businesses and reselling them. He said he was working with an engineering company at the time, with a whole team of engineers. He commented to me that a significant percentage of engineers, as confided by others, are in the Asperger's spectrum. So, their IQ doesn't really describe them in comparison to most people.
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IQ, as a measured attribute is a minefield. Far too many of the instruments designed to measure it are really heavily class and culturally biased. I know a lot of what I consider to be really smart people who have limited education and would score average or below on a Stanford Binet. And others who would score high on the S-B and have a laundry list of credentials that I wouldn't cross the street to piss on if they were on fire. That's comparing apples to oranges to some extent. But, I've come to value decency as much as or more than raw intellect in people.