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Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas by organsnyder on Thursday November 07, 2019 @11:37AM (#21474719)
I'm not a member of BI Prime (nor do I have any intention of becoming one), so I can't see what they use to justify that bullet point.

Even given studies that show a link, there's a big difference between requiring a minimum IQ of 85 to join the US Armed Forces (as mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Intelligence Quotient) compared to asserting a minimum IQ of 120 (or whatever) to be a software developer, as amosquito seems to be doing in their comment ("...massive IQ-based barrier to entry..."). Of course there has to be some floor of intelligence to perform the job—but I'd argue it's a lot lower than many in our field believe.

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Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas by Consultant32452 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @04:15PM (#21477332)
This isn't an argument for or against anything, just some real data.

https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/Occupations.aspx

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Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas by organsnyder on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:11AM (#21481860)
Interesting. Assuming the data is accurate (a big assumption, given the controversy and inaccuracy inherent to these discussions), "computer occs" has a range of ~90-130—well over half of the population. Of course, "computer occs" is quite a broad category...
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