combat success is associated with IQ too

i think its still illegal to let anyone enter the US army with a IQ of less then 80

except the marines

"What do you call a marine with an IQ of 70? General."

jk jk

i very much doubt sub 80 people can become marines

its a joke

nut that they are not allowed to try

just that they wont succeed 😛

the armed forces meme on each other, hard.

hmm could be, not my scene

so the basic joke is that marines are dumb and brutish.

that flyboys are arrogant and cocky

that Navy types don't do much of anything outside of go to foreign ports and supporting the local sex industry

there are a couple of exceptions to the general nature of IQ. they are very rare and far between. these people are called idiot savants

most of the time they are the result of some form of brain damage

sometimes birth defects

and they are VERY succcessful in a very tiny tiny field

like for example a person that can tell you the day of the week for any date you give him

BUT

he wont be able to perform simple addition subtraction maths

even though both of those tasks, for cognitive 'normals' involve the same process

now lets go a little bit more controversial

twin studies

you take genetic twins

they are adopted

one goes to a upperclass household, the other to a middle class household for example

then measure their IQ when they are adults

they have the same genes (read: nature) but different environments (read: nurture)

the higher class people tended to have higher IQs, but class only accounts for 20-50% of the difference , depending on the studies

so yes, taking a baby and dropping it in the desert will effect its IQ, to use Tims analogy

but taking that same baby and putting it in a rich family will increase its IQ, but depending on its genetic background

aka if you have less genes that result is less smarts, even putting you in a rich household will not make you just as smart as the other people in the same kind of households

rather yet, if you want more high IQ people, the best solution is to let rich people adopts the highest IQ babies

over the less high IQ ones

they will be more successful as a result (on average)

and benefit society as a whole more

how does one measure the IQ of a baby?

like i said earlier

IQ is a measurement of general inteligence

so you make the babies compete in cognitive tasks