Does Your Occupation Reflect Your IQ
Posted on January 1st, 2001
Intelligence quotient is defined by Wikipedia as the score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure intelligence. Determining IQ and its equivalent score is used primarily for research purposes and is likewise used as a predictor of educational achievement as well as job performance. IQ tests are usually included in entrance examinations for schools and job application tests, thus the importance in knowing what one’s score is. This list of average IQs per occupation shows a distribution of those scores among various professions. Those with lower IQs are the janitors and sextons while those with the highest IQs are in the medical and legal occupations, those in the field of natural sciences and college professors. What caught my attention was the range of IQs. As shown by the same list, one can gather that some janitors have higher IQ scores than some doctors or lawyers. Surprising? Not really. Intelligence does not define a profession, nor does IQ score define a job. Take for example the members of the protective force like the police. It turns out that the range of IQ scores within this profession more or less falls within the same range as that of manual labourers.
This only goes to show that if this so-called research is even valid, the data is not sufficient enough to arrive to a logical and scientific conclusion. Do note that those in the legal occupation include lawyers and paralegals alike. And what does sales (fire) mean? People selling fire?
So what is the importance of the data generated by this list? Nothing much, really. Maybe we could include the salary range of those in their respective occupations, then we can perhaps see which jobs pay well so one knows which industry one would fare well.
And yes, I researched it online. Sextons are employees of a church responsible for the care and upkeep of church property and sometimes for ringing bells and digging graves. Just so you know.
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