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\u201cS<\/span>mart\u201d has become the encomium of contemporary culture, and the elevation of smart has real-world consequences. IQ is strongly correlated with financial success. David Freedman reports in the Atlantic<\/em><\/a>, \u201cmany employers now ask applicants for SAT scores (whose correlation with IQ is well established); some companies screen out those whose scores don\u2019t fall in the top 5 percent. Even the NFL gives potential draftees a test, the Wonderlic.\u201d <\/p>\n

Besides, \u201cour fetishization of IQ now extends far beyond the workplace. Intelligence and academic achievement have steadily been moving up on rankings of traits desired in a mate; researchers at the University of Iowa report that intelligence now rates above domestic skills, financial success, looks, sociability, and health.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t, well, smart: \u201cThe late Harvard Business School professor Chris Argyris argued that smart people can make the worst employees, in part because they\u2019re not used to dealing with failure or criticism. Multiple studies have concluded that interpersonal skills, self-awareness, and other \u2018emotional\u2019 qualities can be better predictors of strong job performance than conventional intelligence, and the College Board itself points out that it has never claimed SAT scores are helpful hiring filters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"