Sources + people's estimates place the average IQ of a doctor well above 100.
You seem very out of touch if you think that there's a large proportion of doctors and lawyers who have an IQ below 100.
IQ isn't important to me, it's just reality. The difference between 100 IQ and 120 IQ (For instance) is palpable and you can't overcome that with hard work.
There is no universal ranking of doctors, you can't really claim "percentile of success" for doctors or lawyers, and it's weird you're trying to do so.
Why is it so important to you that you have to be "smart" to be a doctor/lawyer?
You said: "I think you'd be quite alarmed by the number of successful doctors and lawyers who don't meet the 100 IQ bar you're setting here".
The number of doctors and lawyers who do not meet that bar appears to be slim to none, so I'm not at all alarmed...
> There is no universal ranking of doctors, you can't really claim "percentile of success" for doctors or lawyers, and it's weird you're trying to do so
I'm not claiming percentiles of success, it's IQ percentiles across all doctors and lawyers.
Regardless of how you define success, a very small proportion of doctors and lawyers don't meet the 100 IQ bar. And if you define success as anything other than having the job, that proportion gets smaller.
There are way more than "slim to none" doctors/lawyers who are at or below 100 IQ.
Your citation is not accepted (it's from nearly 30 years ago, is a sample of men over 30 in Wisconsin, cites research from many years even older [50s and 60s], there's no accounting for correlation -- maybe doing harder work makes you better at taking IQ tests).
It's only doctors, who happened to be the folks who ran the study, that are substantially higher than every other group listed. I wonder why.
IQ is a predictor of success, but it is not an exclusive predictor. Unless you have a mental disability, you can be literally anything you want to be, and even if you have a mental disability, you can still be nearly anything you want to be.
Hard work is astronomically more important than IQ. The literal article you're commenting on is written by someone with one of the highest IQs in the world.
You're in disagreement with all these "high IQ" people you think are worthy of studying other humans, and given the option, I'm going to listen to them over you.
The 10th percentile of MDs is still above 100.
The 10th percent of legal occupations is 100.
Also: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-IQ-of-a-medical-do...
Sources + people's estimates place the average IQ of a doctor well above 100.
You seem very out of touch if you think that there's a large proportion of doctors and lawyers who have an IQ below 100.
IQ isn't important to me, it's just reality. The difference between 100 IQ and 120 IQ (For instance) is palpable and you can't overcome that with hard work.