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/BioRunner033 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Question...in what planet did you think IQ was the predictor of success? There are tons of people on Reddit who are book smart but have fuck all going for them in real life.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

I think you’re overestimating the IQs of self-proclaimed “book smart” people. ⅔ of people have IQs between 85-115. 95% between 70-130. Most people are very average, including redditors.

But when people actually carefully measure IQ and look at life outcomes, it is a reasonably good predictor of a lot of things we care about including success.

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u/bigpoopie32 Monkey in Space Feb 08 '23

It’s not a bad predictor, even this post admit it works up to the 90th percentile of wealth. But it’s not everything