No test measures intelligence. A test only measures you relative to the persons that wrote the test. – loosely quoting Asimov.

2007 is ancient history now. It is an interesting graph that one might correlate with a lack of meritocratic structure in society, but I’m on the low end cause I say this without looking up and reading the study. Pretty pictures evoke emotional blabbering bias and all that.

    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Cool thanks. Skimming the article it seems they find a relationship between IQ and income but not wealth. The explanatory variables seem odd - in the literature section they mention research on gender and income but it is not mentioned in their analysis at all. Their analysis of financial difficulty seems wobbly and they have conclusions and hypotheses but personally I don’t find the results very convincing. Apart from a protective effect of a very low IQ score. I am going to guess that financially savvy people would blaze through the test, collect their $50 and spend the rest of their day on some better.