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This article isn't too surprising. Modern studies only find a small positive connection between IQ and lifetime success (0.25 correlation). Even so, there is no single element predictor that can better measure success compared to IQ. I would hope that by 2059, social scientists can find an accurate way to determine how being rich contributes to "winning".

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Do they? My experience reading them doesn't indicate that at all, IQ is enormously important in determining lifetime success it's just there are different plateaus.

Once you achieve a certain IQ threshold (be it 115, 130, 145, whatever) then other factors play a bigger role but before you hit that threshold your outcomes statistically will be much worse than even the lowest performers who do make the cutoff.

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