• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I know someone whose IQ is measured at 86 and she has a PhD and makes a quarter million dollars a year.

    IQ is a spectrum.

    At 70, though, I believe you would be special needs.

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        9 hours ago

        The point of me posting that is to say that IQ does not necessarily correlate with success.

        For comparison, at the same time she was making a quarter of a million dollars a year, I, with my 136 IQ, was making like 90k, which was still pretty good, but compared to 250k is bupkis.

        And it’s not like she was my boss or anything, we worked in the same group, but she was about 20 years older than me with a PhD.