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> This tells me that you have never learned a foreign language to a high level of proficiency, and that you know very little about art. Well, I've obviously le
by ivanhoe 4y ago
> This tells me that you have never learned a foreign language to a high level of proficiency, and that you know very little about art.
Well, I've obviously learned English well enough to fool you :P
Anyways, I might have misunderstood you, dunno... my impression was that you're saying exactly that - that IQ is the main predictor of academical success - which is something that I both strongly disagree, and have a plenty of anecdotal examples around me that prove it wrong.
- csa 4y ago> Well, I've obviously learned English well enough to fool you Cheers. I walked straight into that. That said, I imagine that there is more to that story. Fwiw, IQ is mildly correlated to a lot of things, including academic success. But as I said and strongly believe, success in academics has much stronger predictors than IQ. I have personally trained many groups of “low performers” and “less smart people” to run circles around high IQ people. I have a mountain of (unfortunately proprietary) data that shows how much certain types of training can accelerate learning. All that said, the toughest and most abstract ideas/areas are pretty much limited to the high IQ people. I will add that this comes with baggage — they are often frustrated that their peers don’t see or understand what they see and understand.