alt Hacker NewsIt loses its signal once you reach triple digits. You don't want someone with <80 but it tells you nothing about someone with 120 or 160.
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alecco • yesterday at 3:55 PM
I call BS. From my extensive anecdata:
No amount of education, experience, and grit can turn a 100 IQ person into Einstein. IQ is a massive multiplier.
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They eliminate the bottom third of applicants by ASVAB score which would mean an IQ of 93 if it translated exactly (ADVAB to IQ and SAT is only about 0.8 correlation). That is the minimum to get in to do any job at all for a minimum enlistment contract. So to talk about statistically significant career success predictors you would have to get into the low three digits, just looking at nothing but the math of IQ distributions. A cut-line of 80 would only drop the bottom 9% of the general population.