That's one hard to parse sentence there... or maybe I've been exposed to too much lead as a child :) In all seriousness, IQ is an important component of intell

That's one hard to parse sentence there... or maybe I've been exposed to too much lead as a child :) In all seriousness, IQ is an important component of intelligence, mainly "fluid intelligence" that correlates well to learning speed in science and technology field, so for anyone that needs to do lots of learning/unlearning and career/domain hopping like we're all going to do more and more in the future it matters a hell of a lot! I a world where someone could pick a job/domain and stick to it for life, IQ would matter but less... but it's not the world we're living in, everything is accelerating and our kids are likely to go through quite a few career changes / professional re-conversions etc.