Korona wrote:
Intelligence, as in "IQ", has a single factor, namely g. And g predicts academic success really well.
Sadly that's absolutely not true. Take for example
Katalin Kariko. She is highly intelligent yet she didn't had academic success. Actually she was refused
for decades, and she still would be if it weren't for covid (her work makes the basis of the vaccine). She was "lucky", so that now she gets academic success, but not thanks to her high IQ, just the result of the circumstances, the need for a vaccine in a pandemic.
Actually high IQ people are more often terrible with social skills than not, just like Sheldon or Tesla. Tesla actually preferred birds more than people.
Let me give you an example to explain why is this. Let's assume everybody has a Volkswagen, but you have a Lamborghini. Since most people have a VW, the speed limits are defined for them. Now VW owners are jealous for the sport car because they can't have one, and the Lamborghini owner is frustrated because he can't make the best of his car because he also must obey the speed limit if he doesn't want to cause an accident.
What do you think, how is the social interaction going to be between these two? Friendly and nice? Jealousy on one side, and frustration on the other, it's pretty hard to be friendly for both sides. It's very much the same with a high IQ person and a mass with average IQ.
Cheers,
bzt