i think the rich have seen the avocado toast problem for a long time. that's why they sell you avocado toast, because clearly it's making you poor and they have too much of it.

This is more like a chart of, "does being smart help you stay above the poverty line?"

Same and to include genius IQ

Actually it should show net wealth, not income, as the truly wealthy avoid income tax by taking out loans on their (appreciating) assets. The loans have a very low interest rate, much lower than their assets appreciate, so they are always ahead and can pay off the loans with more loans. The wealthiest people don't really have jobs or need jobs for income, they use jobs for power and manipulation.

I feel ya, I also generally am very against "it's just common sense!" type reasoning. But have you ever spent time with, like special education students? Like someone who will need to live with their parents forever because they can't learn to do things like read or write? It's nice to believe that maybe if only they had been given the right environment, they wouldn't have those problems - it's also just not true. Or perhaps we can take a more extremely example of someone who suffered a major brain injury. It sucks, and it's unfair, but at the end of the day some people really are definitively less smart than others. And by that same token, those others are definitively more smart than them. Of course, once people are at a certain level, it gets a lot harder to tell, but that dynamic is still in play. Likewise, if you've ever had the experience of interacting with a gifted kid, it's pretty clear that they're smarter than others.

That's a good distinction about intelligence being generally advantageous. That is why I said generally - it has some clear disadvantages like loneliness or a deeper awareness of the world's problems, etc. But most of the time, being smart is advantageous, don't you think? I mean, what is intelligence other than an ability to correctly understand reality? I do agree that sometimes having a false understanding of reality can coincidentally help you out, but knowing how things really are is certainly the superior strategy. If you think otherwise, it's always easy to make yourself dumber and reap the rewards. I don't mean that sarcastically or cruelly. I just mean, there's a reason we don't see intelligent people lobotomizing themselves to have better lives.

Agreed the chart only shows correlation and not causation in either direction.

Sorry buddy, but "Einstein wasn't smart" just isn't something I can take seriously.

You don’t know people who are clearly dumb?

The average ACT score for college bound seniors in Florida is 18. The test costs money, which means they’re at least trying. It’s childishly easy. My cat, who is illiterate, can score almost as high (answering at random).

What kind of conversations can you have with folks who can’t do arithmetic or read simple sentences?

I want to stress that Americans, uniquely, are really weird about testing mental ability, because of their history of racism. Nevertheless, intelligence is a real phenomenon.

A high IQ doesn’t make you a good person, and it clearly has very little to do with accumulating wealth. But it does make life a hell of a lot easier. It enables you to do second order reasoning and engage in abstract deliberation, which is indispensable for ethics and science. Or do you think it’s a coincidence that average IQs rose 30 points in the last 100 years exactly in tandem with moral progress?

Denying intellectual disparities denies the vulnerability of people with special needs, not to mention average folks who are constantly being deceived, swindled, manipulated, propagandized, and parasitized by the rich and powerful.

We are going to put you at about 90

Congrats you're dumber than AI

We are going to put you at about 85

Fair, there probably isn't any correlation, I'd just like to believe that I'm smart because I'm good at saving 😆 Although my last IQ test (during my Adhd evaluation last year) wasn't much over 110 anyways, so I don't even count as smart on paper haha

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.