You know, walking humbly with God, if you’re into Micah-like stuff, feeding your family, not murdring people: these are great things.
ETA: so is spelling, sometimes.
Voyager
September 16, 2016, 10:38pm
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RickJay:
I was hyperlexic as well, reading before three.
I have often used the analogy of racing in terms of how I compared to my peers. It’s as if I was a 100-yard dash specialist in a 400-metre race; I was really, really far ahead for a long time, and if the race had ended at 7 years old I would have dusted the field, but it didn’t, so the field caught up and I didn’t even win a medal. At 4 years old I could read when essentially no other kids could. At 7 I could read better than any kid in my school. At 9, one or two kids had caught up to me. At 12, more, and by the end of high school I was not remotely close to being the smartest kid in my school.
I was a very normal reader through 2/3 of first grade, at which time I jumped from Fun with Dick and Jane to Jules Verne. In second grade someone noticed I was reading 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea and pulled me out to read to the principal. I clearly understood what I was reading. In third grade they gave me the test for the highest reading level workbook, I passed it, and they let me read what I wanted after that.
Damuri_Ajashi:
IQ is pretty well associated with almost every good life outcome and negatively associated with almost every bad life outcome.
On average, you make more money, you live longer, you are less likely to have a failed marriage, you are more likely to graduate high school, you are more likely to graduate college, you are more likely to own a home, you are more likely to finish crossword puzzles, you are more less likely to be incarcerated, you are less likely to be murdered, you are less likely to become addicted to drugs, you are less likely to become a habitual smoker or an excessive drinker. I can’t think of many life results that are NOT positively affected by higher IQ.
Cites for all of this. Lots of claims here.
Surreal
September 19, 2016, 7:02pm
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I think many of these are cited in Stuart Richie’s book “Intelligence: All That Matters.” A few of them are also included in Ritchie’s article below:
One large study found that IQ scores at age 11 correlated 0.8 (on a scale of -1 to 1) with school grades at age 16. Surely this gives us some basis for calling these measures ‘intelligence tests’. But that’s just the beginning: higher IQ scores are predictive of more occupational success, higher income, and better physical and mental health. Perhaps the most arresting finding is that IQ scores taken in childhood are predictive of mortality. Smarter people live longer, and this association is still there after controlling for social class.