Reliable and valid intelligence tests do exist, represent relatively stable variance and individual differences in several aspects of intelligence, and they predict a wide range of important life outcomes. Scientists that study intelligence have made a lot of progress in the last decade in determining how much of intelligence is genetic/heritable, and how much is environmental (shared and unshared environment).
To be clear, many "IQ" tests are worthless. In the end, it really depends on what one means by "intelligence".
Yes, a leading intelligence researcher (one of my advisors in grad school) summed this up by saying "life is an IQ test"!
Hillary's head (kill) count could be higher, but at this point it doesn't matter. The people chose him over the beatch.
The current "IQ Theory" is just catching up to empirical tests other than the tradition "academic IQ Test" and is beginning to explain why some empirical tests work well at predicting inherent capability and good chance of success. For example, the USAF has long used an empirical "Pilot Aptitude Test" that has a collection of questions that cover a wide gamut, and the "right" answers are merely those that most successful pilots gave. When I entered, they were desperately short of people that could learn foreign languages so I was sent through the language aptitude test and got a dismal score of 38%, which reflects the huge effort I had to expend to get B or C in college language classes. Fortunately for me, my Aptitude Scores in my chosen and related fields were 95%.
A leader doesn’t have to be a genius if he seeks good advice and correctly applies logic and justice in making his decisions. In fact, geniuses may be deceptive, playing with politics, public opinion and exercising power to achieve secret, even diabolical goals. Ex. Hillary Clinton. I hope you are backing our Chief Executive and that you aren’t one of the yapping dogs that are nipping at his heals. Reporters and Journalists who have an agenda to keep are NOT Reporters. They are really Editorialists, or they are merely functionaries of Editorialists whose motivations and allegiances may lead back to dark rooms and plotting Leftist Strategists. Today’s political scene appears like it’s being manipulated by someone using Saul Linsky for a play book. It’s just too coincidental.
