Discrimination, IQ, and Stupidity









Or as Heinlein put it:



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Fascinating Reflection

Hello, Rainbough.

This is a fascinating and sensitive reflection on intelligence in the workplace. For any work that can be measured by performance, it would seem not to matter whether poor performance results from lack of application or lack of raw ability or intellectual capacity.

You mention intelligence training, though, which makes me wonder whether in future an employer wouldn't be expected to give an employee access to such training before deciding whether to fire them.

If you haven't seen Jaeggi's study on Training Working Memory (PNAS), you should check it out. Jaeggi's team recorded increases in mental agility (fluid intelligence) of up to 50% after 19 days of focused training with a dual n-back progressive method.

I was so impressed that I developed a software program using the same method so that anyone can achieve these improvements at home.
(IQ Training Program)

mind evolve, llc

education inflation

60 years ago maybe 70% of the available jobs or apprentice programs could be handled by a high school grad. These days 2 years of junior college are needed to get a high school education because half the high school grads can read or write or follow instructions.

The entry level jobs, themselves, require much less actual book learning than did the jobs 60 years ago. When I was a kid, a store clerk had to write the purchases on a sales slip, total them in is head, and make change.

40 years ago a GED was sufficient for a police officer. Still should be but the cities want trained social workers, not police officers.

When ever person with an IQ over 80 has a high school diploma, then high school will be a requirement for driving a garbage truck. Maybe 2 years of college. The job will be called "recycle tech," something like that.

There are people who have an

There are people who have an IQ in the low 80's, yet have law degrees from Harvard.

Barack Obama for example.