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Michael Bailey's avatar

As I believe Clark has argued, there is often tradeoff between income and other desirable aspects of the job. Many university professors make much less than they would doing something else, but like independence and job security and schedule flexibility. Another reason why correlations aren’t higher.

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Janice Heimner's avatar

Excellent article! I was just pointing this out to someone the other day, but you made the point much better than I could. I also like to point out to people who are overly critical of IQ that they never offer a better measure to predict across life domains. The only one someone ever offered was g, which I then told him was extremely highly correlated to IQ and wouldn't change the results much.

Until they can find a better construct which explains as much individual, group, and national success in the modern world, their criticisms of IQ, while valid considerations, ring a lot more hollow. For example they bring up cultural bias, which in some ways is valid but in other ways is a bit silly. What if some cultures are better able to build economies and integrate into Western or globalized economies? I think this is certainly true but it seems the implication is offensive to some.

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