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by TomJoad 4762 days ago
What does a "low IQ" have to do with manual labor? IQ or any other measure of so called intelligence, has never -- and will probably never -- have any correlation with a person's occupation. Ultimately, it is the parent's socio-economic status which usually dictates what jobs their children will have.

The fact that you believe it could be a person's "IQ" which dictates what job they may have really shows how little regard you have for people.

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> Ultimately, it is the parent's socio-economic status which usually dictates what jobs their children will have.

That's not an agreed upon fact.

For example, a cursory googling of "correlation between iq and job" brings up a lot of articles with language like "This is why hundreds of studies have found that IQ predicts job performance best (though not all that well) at the start of a person’s career, and progressively weakens over the course of that career."[1] or subtitles like "Intelligence wins out over socio-economic status when it comes to career advancement"[2]. (But maybe that search term is biased. I just entered the most obvious thing.)

As another example, wikipedia says "The validity of IQ as a predictor of job performance is above zero for all work studied to date, but varies with the type of job and across different studies, ranging from 0.2 to 0.6. The correlations were higher when the unreliability of measurement methods was controlled for."[3]

> really shows how little regard you have for people.

Inappropriate.

1. http://danielgoleman.info/the-trouble-with-iq/

2. http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=1637...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Job_perf...

Look, that sounds nice and all, but it just isn't true. Some people are smarter than others. This should be an incredibly uncontroversial claim. Also, textbook ad hominem at the end there.

The fact that you believe a persons "height" dictates their chance of competing in the NBA really shows how little regard you have for people.