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Absolutely! My dad had his IQ tested at 146 and I wouldn't trust him with alone with a basic fact

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Mar 17, 2020

IQ is not the same as the motivation for truth-seeking; they are only moderately correlated with each other. Just because someone is able to reason and learn complex information doesn't mean they are motivated to do so, and one does not require a high IQ to care about the truth.

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Is there any evidence that IQ scores are strongly correlated with anything meaningful? (after controlling for wealth, education, etc of course)?

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Yes, they're highly correlated with job performance, as well as with job trainability.

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Seconded; iirc, they're the most highly predictive and we'll studied generalized measure in psychology

5:17 PM · Mar 18, 2020

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Sources? I don't find a consensus on the topic. For example ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P found that IQ/job performance wasn't strongly correlated in recent studies, and small correlations could easily be explained by various factors

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Yeah this is true; here's a meta-analysis of studies about IQ and job performance (home.ubalt.edu/tmitch/645/ses). Look especially at the table on page 66 (NB: their numbers for job interviews are very optimistic compared to other studies with different range-restriction corrections)