The higher the IQ, the lower the risk of autism.
You're a Navy SEAL sniper deployed in hostile territory. Your 'spotter' uses notepad & laptop to make adjustments for distance, slant range, atmospheric conditions, moving targets, etc. What's the ideal IQ for your spotter to have? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper#Sniper_teams …
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Upset who?
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No. But, can you think of a job where a boss would rather hire random employees and then measure job performance while most of them mess up their work and undermine his business, rather than doing some kind of aptitude screening?
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I’d rather rely a spotter who has experience and is calm under pressure than depend on a false metric like a 131 IQ. Here’s a better question would you rather have an experienced spotter, with all of the qualities I just listed above, or a member of MENSA in this situation?
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The best question would be a situation which controls for all variables. Controlling for equal training hours in the given task, would you prefer someone with 85, 100, 115, 130+ IQ
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Excellent point. Or, do you want the opposing army to have used cognitive testing in selecting their snipers and spotters, or not??
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All this does is show our cognitive bias towards the idea of higher I.Q. as some ultimate measure of practical ability (which of course it isn't).
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Can you think of a job involving anything beyond pure manual labor where the PREFERRED answer isn’t 130+?
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Why wouldn't IQ matter for manual labor? Aren't smarter brick-layers better brick-layers?
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I recognize the point being made, but it needs to be noted that skill in long range precision shooting and spotting are highly experience and training dependent.
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Of course. No one would dispute that. The issue is how fast can you learn to apply your skills under real-world conditions, and how quickly and reliably can you use them under intense, high-stakes pressure.
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