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IQ correlates extremely heavily with having a successful life by western civilization standards, yes.

• chucksta 4y ago
  So you can't have a high IQ and not be in gifted?
  • rhexs 4y ago
    What?
    • deleted 4y ago
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    • chucksta 4y ago
      You changed the subject from being in gifted to being gifted. You can exist outside of gifted and still have a high IQ and be a successful person. So, no.
  • 0des 4y ago
    any time you feel your hands touch your hips, and your sentence begins to start with the word "so", just stop what youre doing and go have a snickers.
    • chucksta 4y ago
      At least my post is relevant to the topic, not just critiquing someone for being hangry
      • 0des 4y ago
        how are your hands both simultaneously on your hips and the keyboard at the same time?
        • chucksta 4y ago
          Zing! keep em coming!
• lupire 4y ago
  So we should accept that 98 0+% of people can or gave a successful life, yet should support the gifted <10% in their journey to extract the world's wealth? I don't want to spend my tax money educating future bankers.
  • robonerd 4y ago
    If you're talking about the top 10% of kids, you're obviously not talking about [just] the hyper-elite future bank executives (who are probably what, the top 0.0001%?) The top 10% of students is quite large would include all manner of engineers, doctors, etc. People who play vital roles in keeping our civilization going, not just parasitically leeching off interest rates or whatever it is banking executives do. Most of those future executives are probably in private schools right now anyway.