It doesn’t pass the smell test. I think it’s clear from personal experience that some people I meet are just “smarter” than others. They do better at a wide ran

It doesn’t pass the smell test. I think it’s clear from personal experience that some people I meet are just “smarter” than others. They do better at a wide range of intellectual activities. I don’t know if “IQ” is the best measurement of that but it’s clearly true that some concept of general intelligence is real. A lot of the arguments here are silly. For example IQ has only a moderate correlation with income. Well yes, there are many other important skills for being successful and intelligence is just one of them. It doesn’t mean all else being equal I wouldn’t rather have a higher IQ.