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Is stratifying income based off of IQ any more than we already have something that would benefit society?



in sofar as IQ helps predict actual job performance, I'd say yes.

Now I'm not saying the situation isn't complicated. In the mid-20th century, IQ testing was a great driver of social mobility. However, as was pointed out in _The Bell Curve_, it's becoming the opposite. From what I understand, the heritability of IQ and assortative mating (i.e. people marrying other people of similar IQ/educational attainment) are the main drivers of this.

I don't think the formation of an entrenched class system is necessarily a good thing, but I think in the local context of our industry there's still a lot of good that could be done by improving our hiring process. I mean, would you rather hire people who only sound smart, or who are smart?




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