Low iq?

People get paid more based on the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) than there Intellectual Intelligence (IQ).

There are lots of stories of unemployed and broke geniuses who cannot function in the world and lots of stories of people with low IQ who become $Millionaires.

It's their people skills and ability to relate to people that determines how much money they make past any technical skill they may have.

big brain stephen hawking said people who brag about their iqs are losers and mid-iqs and high-iqs allegedly brag so what exactly is the discourse here

You’re right. The average IQ of impoverished people is 87.

Bad decision making is not actually related to iq so much. Conscientiousness for example was found to have a zero percent correlation with iq.

Unabomber is the ultimate example, sky high iq, impossibly bad decision making.

Definitely irrelevant to intelligence. Not sure if you're aware but many of the most intelligent people alive and deceased came from poverty.

Marie Curie
Isaac Newton
Howard Schultz
Kenneth Langone
Alan Gerry
Graham Steven
Jim Carrey
Charles Dickens
Judit Polgár
Leonardo da Vinci

The list could go on

These are all people who are highly intelligent who grew up poor so if anything, half of all people with high intelligence grew up poor. There's literally no correlation.

As for what I've seen with my own friends, I have a friend who skipped 2 grades in school because they're incredibly bright and graduated from Harvard. Their parents came here from Asia with near no money. She lived in a one room apartment with them growing up. She's a neurosurgeon now.

My other friend's parents lived in poverty but both he and his brother also graduated from Harvard. He's a lead software developer at a large company now.

I have another friend who is genius level, had his intelligence tested at a young age because he was so advanced. He came from poverty too. When I would talk to him as a teen his family couldn't afford electricity bills so he often would be without internet for days so they were incredibly poor. He's a vascular surgeon now

Poor = bad decisions = stupidity

Got it.

Well IQ tests done on children from all different areas show that there isn't really any correlation between IQ and locale. Maybe there would be a correlation with IQ and locale if they had done those tests on adults. But that would only show that it was their upbringing and education made the difference, rather than genetics.

Plus there was a big experiment done back in the 1920s, where they gave a load of kids IQ tests, and then looked at how successful they were when they were older, and they found that the kids with high IQs were only slightly more successful than those with the low IQs. In fact, it's since been shown that the biggest factor in a person's success, bigger even than IQ or motivation, is how rich/successful their parents are, which is disheartening.

Yeah it is with a lot of people. Look at a map of world IQs and world poverty. It's not a 100% correlation, but there's definitely a strong correlation to be found.