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IQ Scores and Predictive Power

The relationship between IQ scores and life outcomes such as job performance and academic grades

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Jan 12, 2026

Can IQ scores accurately predict leadership abilities?

IQ correlates with many measures of occupational success and with some leadership outcomes, but it is neither necessary nor sufficient to predict effective leadership on its own; recent research shows...

Jan 5, 2026

Can IQ tests predict real-world outcomes like job performance and life success?

IQ scores are meaningfully correlated with measured outcomes such as school grades, certain measures of job performance, and other life outcomes, but they are far from deterministic and their predicti...