Is IQ usefully predictive? (was: Re: the term "eugenics")

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 22:51:31 MDT

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I think Anders stated that it's not correlated with other desiderata such
as success at college or in life. This is not supported by, say:

which is a rather interesting graph in a 1998 SciAm article on `g' at,
unsurprisingly,

Damien Broderick

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