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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Can you think of a job involving anything beyond pure manual labor where the PREFERRED answer isn’t 130+?
Why wouldn't IQ matter for manual labor? Aren't smarter brick-layers better brick-layers?
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It’s not that it doesn’t matter, it’s that you could argue it makes you a worse employee long term because you are less likely to be “satisfied.” I included it just to remove that argument from consideration
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Satisfaction doesn’t mean the job is done worse. It means the whole institution will advance faster because people won’t settle. Manual labor would benefit from this as well.
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Why would a gifted person lay bricks professionally? There are lots of smart and creative people one standard deviation on both sides of the IQ mean.
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Some time ago masonry was one of the hardest trades
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Not to take away from your point Geoffrey but masonry is a skilled trade. It is not manual labor.
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I’m guessing you run into diminishing marginal returns at some point. The question is where that point lies.
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That’s true, but that doesn’t affect your preference. You’ll always have a preference for higher returns
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Not necessarily. A very smart person may get bored to death laying brinks same way. Now if he were to lay bricks for an arch or a dome, that would be different...
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No. In this case IQ will determine how quickly you learn, not how well you do the job. See Prof Jordon Petersons youtube on the topic of IQ, very interesting
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Because of monotonous job, repetitive function is better for lower iq. Higher iq would be thinking, how can I do this faster and easier!
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