>>17852547>People think of the brain as a processor and of IQ as GHz so naturally more intelligent people should have lower pricetag, just like laptops, right....? But in reality the brain has extremely compartmentalized regions and you could be an absolute genius in understanding syntax and technical elements of language but absolute dogshit in understanding the pragmatic meaning of a sentence. To make the big buck you need to be well-rounded and determined. Either that or autistically determined to make it in that one niche thing you do better than the rest.Ok now a reality check. A lot of psychologists will declare similar beliefs, but you know a civic engineer may not believe in gravity, but does he account on it in practice or not?
When diagnosing dyslexia the standard procedure is to give the patient an IQ test(the multi task one, forget what it was called). Then you look at subtests, if some particular ones are significantly outside of the average(I believe standard deviation is enough) of other subtests that is ground for diagnosing dyslexia. iirc the maximum you could get from a subtests is 19 points, lets say a patient is a genius, he will have straight 19's but if those two subtests are at 13, which is above average he's dysfunctional. The reason why this proves you wrong is that psychologists do believe in unitary intelligence if the assumption is that deviation from the spread of subtest results is grounds for declaring dysfunction. The civic engineer does use gravity in his calculations despite claiming it doesn't exist after all.
As for the topic it's mostly correct, there will be correlation between wealth and intelligence, there will be endless amounts of outliers because it's a very complex topic, but there is an obvious trend.
