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Are they really smart then? You are using a straw man fallacy by redefining who’s smart.

• alistairSH 4y ago
  The study apparently used some flavor of IQ test, which already makes assumptions about what “smart” means. And is who “really smart then”? I knew plenty of people in college who were of similar general IQ as me but chose career paths specifically to maximize income (finance, largely). And I knew plenty who were smarter than me who went into fields such as education or PT/exercise science because that’s what they wanted to do. So it doesn’t surprise me in the least that IQ correlates with high income to a point, but beyond that point other factors (largely desire to be wealthy) play a larger role.
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• groestl 4y ago
  Maybe you're thinking of No true Scotsman? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
  • groestl 4y ago
    Actually, thinking of it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts is more fitting (since No true Scotsman is about redefining irrelevant criteria).
    • DonHopkins 4y ago
      When there are no true goalposts, it's time for moving the straw Scotsman.