Re: Is IQ usefully predictive? (and not in this case)

From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 11:56:14 MDT


Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> Wrote:

> Okay, and Marylin Vos Savant (with an IQ of something like 210) does
> nothing but write an advice and puzzle column for the newspaper...
> obviously an entirely worthless endeavor in the Clarkian scheme of things.

Yet another good example of the failure of IQ in determining future success.
I would never presume to call Vos Savant a failure in life but she's certainly
no world shaker, and given her astronomical IQ that's exactly what you'd expect
her to be, assuming of course that IQ tests worked as advertised.

      John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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