Kasz216 said:
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.
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. |
For decades there was a commonly held belief that people who were more successful in certain fields would be those that had the highest IQs but when studies were done they found that there was almost no relationship to IQ and success. This drove researchers to try to determine which qualities were actually linked to success, and a large portion of this research led to the development of what is now called Emotional Intelligence.
While IQ tends to measure mathematical and language abilities, EQ focuses more on factors like self-discipline and empathy and it is not difficult to see why it would be so closely correlated to an individual's success.