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by burntoutfire 1440 days ago
Jordan Peterson always says that, when it comes to predicting success in life, IQ has the highest predictive value of all the traits that we can currently measure.
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Koreans might be discouraged there because their national example didn't do anything with his IQ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ung-yong

The other problem being that "high IQ explains everything" people don't actually go around personally going around giving people IQ tests. They just read somewhere that X guy has IQ Y and then decide that's evidence for something.