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by rawgabbit 1876 days ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557354/

“ Supporters of IQ testing have been quick to point to correlations between IQ and job performance as evidence of test validity. A closer look at the data and results, however, suggests a rather murkier picture.”

TLDR. IQ tests measure the same thing that academic tests measure. It is debatable if IQ corresponds to job performance.