I think innate intelligence (whether measured by IQ or more qualitatively) is a real thing. I think people implicitly live that way and organize society that wa

I think innate intelligence (whether measured by IQ or more qualitatively) is a real thing. I think people implicitly live that way and organize society that way. I also think it's also considered a faux pas to actually say as much. People tie respect, identity, and self worth into intelligence a lot. It's hard to say Kimberly is smarter than David without offending people. Let alone to say engineers are generally smarter than elevator operators (to pick a mostly extinct job). To some degree, all the interview hazing and discussion about "programming talent" is all dancing around the West's inability to discuss intelligence quantitatively and dispassionately. To be fair, historically there has been a lot of sexism, racism, bigotry, and pseudoscience tied up in the science of intelligence. I'm not sure how to get society to re-approach the subject in a scientific, productive, and beneficial way.