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Kasz216 on 10 July 2011
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Jay520 said:
Kasz216 said:

What's important to note is that Intellegence as measured by IQ tests doesn't = Being Smart.

IQ tests = your ability to learn things quickly

All a high IQ means is that it's easier for you to learn stuff, not that you are smarter.

In essense, you can be lazier and learn things easier.  Which if you fall into the "high middleground" area for IQ can actually be bad, because you don't develop needed study habits for when you get to your college level stuff.

It's not so much a thing that you should feel proud about, but really, just pressure.  Cause if you don't succeed it's your own damn fault.


Isn't that what being smart is?

I wouldn't think so.

I'd say it's the potential to be smart.

There are a lot of people with high IQs who are actually pretty dumb. 

For a similar example I'd point to Michael Jordan.  Most consider him the greatest Basketball Player in the world.  Genetically he wasn't.  Genetically there were tons of people who learned basketball easier and quicker.  Jordan was cut from the basketball team in highschool.

Yet Michael is considered better then them all.

 

Statistics and studies actually tend to show that intellegence like athletic ability is gradiant.  You only need to have a "high enough Iq" to do something, then you've got as good a chance to do it as anybody else.


For example the "normal" requried IQ for a college degree and successful career is 110.

If your going for a Bachelors level job, having a 150 Iq doesn't really help you much more then havng a 112 IQ.  Just how the NBA is filled with people of a certain height however the most gifted aren't always equal to the most talented.

And there are always the EXTRA hard working exceptions who break the requirements.  Like say... JJ Barea.

 

Training overcomes Talent.