My challenge to folks who are skeptical about IQ tests such as the Stanford-Binet or WAIS-R: Develop your own measure of general cognitive ability and show that it has higher reliability & validity in predicting real-world success. I'll wait.
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One of smartest friends is a
walker. Is he successful? Is reasonable of you to try to make that determination w/out more information? Another is a puppeteer who eschews 
& dumpster dives for food. They are both successful in my estimation & + importantly, their own.
The question isn't whether there are smart dog-walkers. Of course there are. The question is this case would be whether IQ predicts how good a dog-walker is, across a large sample of dog-walkers, by whatever metrics of success are relevant in dog-walking?
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I know a guy who became a professional dogwalker for a firm that's the Uber of Dogwalking. He had to study dog care manuals for weeks to pass that qualifying exam: much more intellectually demanding than becoming an Uber driver.
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All else equal the higher IQ person will be a better dog walker *but* all else isn't going to be equal because the biggest variables with controlling dogs are non-IQ personality traits A high IQ person who knows he's bad with dogs will be smart enough to not be a dog walker
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Beyond basic needs it's not clear any broad based metric does a better job than individual narrative in defining success &Y should it if it is subjectively defined?My
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