Consider: Not all highly intelligent people are successful, and not all successful people are highly intelligent. I am referring to a widely accepted meaning of the term "success," to mean the ability to obtain a job, make money, find lasting relationships, communicate, etc.
Or to put it another way:
Lots of people who scored high on high IQ tests have basically amounted to nothing in life. Yet, many who may not have been considered the sharpest tools in the proverbial shed, have managed to accomplish important and meaningful things with their lives.
Still, society tends to place great emphasis on IQ levels. How important do YOU think IQ level is to a person's overall success in life? (Regardless of whether you're a genius or mentally retarded)
2007-02-25 21:34:17 · 8 answers · asked by bandit 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I don't think IQ is actually given much emphasis. when was the last time anyone asked you yours? Once you get out of education you'll be fortunate if you ever hear it again. Only Mensa make it a requirement and that's like the Freemasons.
IQ Tests test only ONE type of intelligence. Check this out:
English/Maths and reason: IQ Intelligence
Head Cheerleader who knows every minute of the schoolday who of hundreds of other girls she should be talking to, currying favour with and all the gossip that keeps her on top: Social Intelligence.
An artist that can see something in front of them and know exactly what mix of colour and brush stroke not only portrays it but in a way that makes you feel something: Creative Intelligence
IQ tests are for a marginal part of what makes humans "intelligent" and I realyl don't think people take them as importantly as you think.
2007-02-25 22:17:41 · answer #1 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure IQ is important in a person. But there are other things that are important in life like the level of maturity and emotional strength. These are just as important. You can be highly intelligent but be immature or not very emotionally developed.
2007-02-25 22:31:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IQ is important because of the fact it ought to cut back your options in existence. as an occasion, if somebody has their coronary heart set on becoming to be a NASA scientist yet they have a low IQ, that's extremely not likely to be a threat to realize that dream.
2016-10-16 12:35:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intelligence is very important to ones life because it is where you use your talent for something which you think will be beneficial to you.The example which you have stated has no bearing. It depends on your intelligence which you want to use in your daily lives or undertakings. Humans have different kinds of intelligence on something. You maybe intelligent in math and someone maybe intelligent on social culture, intelligent to analyze prob lems, intelligent to to attain understanding easily, and so forth and so on.Intelligence can not be the basis for your success in life. It can be base on your knowledge or know-how.
2007-02-25 21:49:01 · answer #4 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe, but it also has a lot to do with drive and ambition. There is common sense and street smarts and there is book smarts. I score about 120 and so does my mate. I could not have a relationship with someone who was not my equal or superior.
2007-02-25 21:39:43 · answer #5 · answered by starrynight1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont think it is important some people are just bad at test but do good in all of the class,or they are good with there hands but bad with test
I TOOK 1 TODAY AND I SCORED A 125-ABOVE AVEARAGE I'M HAPPY
2007-02-25 21:40:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a commercial scam on people it makes them try harder for the bosses!
2007-02-25 22:08:20 · answer #7 · answered by wheeliebin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nOT SO IMPORTANT.
2007-02-25 21:37:27 · answer #8 · answered by saumitra s 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋