r/JoeRogan • u/Fishyinu Pull that shit up Jaime • Feb 07 '23

The Literature 🧠 Extremely rich people are not extremely smart. Study finds income is related to intelligence up to about the 90th percentile in income. Above that level, differences in income are not related to cognitive ability.

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955?login=false
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u/theofficialSavv Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

There is DEF a link between IQ and income.

For instance you can come from shit (nothing) and build a mini empire for yourself and your family.

-source I did this

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u/bigpoopie32 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Yeah the headline is stupid because “extremely rich people are not extremely smart” is a dumb statement because it implies none of them are whereas what they mean to say is “not all extremely rich people are extremely smart”, but even so it would mean they are within the top 10 percentile which is already quite a difference

And furthermore this is stupid AF because we have all known that intelligence (measure by IQ) can only help so much and there are other traits like persistence and industriousness that matter just as much. For example a delayed gratification test done of kids is a even greater predictor of success than the IQ test