Imagine you want to earn money and thus you need learn a skill. Which would earn you more money: learning to code or learning to stock shelves.
learning to code or learning to weld? Highly skilled work is highly paid work.
There are incredibly talented musicians out there that can’t even afford rent and genius mathematicians are rarely seen purchasing a yacht.
Sorry, but anecdotes are really problematic (i.e. useless) when evaluating correlation between variables.
Research puts IQ - income correlation to around 0.4, if my memory serves.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11711-smarter-people-...
Common sense will tell you billionaires aren’t orders of magnitude smarter than the rest of us.
1. "Each point increase in IQ test scores is associated with $202 to $616 more income per year,”
And thus you’ve discovered why social “science” is not science at all. IQ is a nebulous concept anyway. Yes, if you’re cognitively impaired, there are lots of things you can’t do and that will impact your pay but higher income is related to who you know, not what you do.
“Each point increase in IQ test scores is associated with $202 to $616 more income per year,”
That study claims that the income increase associated with higher IQ doesn't necessarily translate into increased average wealth though as other life style factors may offset the increased average income.
Yet I have heard about plenty of people in major tech cmpanies like google and apple feeling like they are in a rut despite the good pay. So if you measure satisfaction by just money you miss out on other factors. It's not like a tech job guantees a path to deep and fulfilling work.