My Dark Night of the Soul

[yossarian]

IQ and academic performance are strongly correlated

Huh? Academic performance to me is how perfectly you do what you are told. I have a supposed high IQ and a decent paying job without even gaining a 9th grade degree.

I am definitely not good at doing what I am told. I got expelled second day of my freshman year. Boy did I know how to party.

If you put as much effort into your schooling as you did for your IQ test you'd get high marks.

People with poor educations and high IQs are just people with no motivation to complete schoolwork but high motivation to complete IQ tests. and of course the ability as well.

By the way, IQ tests were initially designed to measure academic performance up to about grade 7 or 8, like age 14 or so. A 9th grade education would be considered a lot at most times in history. You're mathematically capable and literate - that's more than many American kids have today. Especially black and Hispanic kids from poor or broken families. There are functionally illiterate people getting their diploma right now. It happens a lot.