Range of IQ per Occupations

This is fairly common, as the boredom can lead to destructive activities.


There's also an inverse, where people who test highly are pushed into certain activities that they can handle academically but are not interested in.

 

Some are also socially inept.

 

I believe there's a correlatioin between the milder forms of Asperberger's Syndrome and high achievers/high IQs.

 

the old "so smart they're stupid" syndrome

 

I think it might be because they don't assume as much. Most "ordinary" people think they are explaining something fairly clearly, only to have the brilliant listener ask for clarifications on numerous points and assumptions that the speaker thought were well-defined and obvious. There was a test done where people were asked about the uses of some ordinary objects. You would not believe the many, many creative (and valid) uses that were dreamt up by the intelligent respondents. Something along the lines of that internet email about the college kid being asked how he could use a barometer to measure the height of a building, to which he answered that he would go to the superintendent and offer him the barometer if he could tell him the height of the building, or dropping it and measuring the time taken, or measuring shadow lengths and simple proportions, or... I think there were over a hundred different ways, other than the conventional method.

That said, it can be annoying for us ordinary folk to keep having to answer questions that keep us from getting to our main point.

 

It's sort of like talent. You either have it or you don’t. Can’t be learned, earned, or bought. It’s an innate gift. I see it all the time teaching art in college.

 

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Oh yea, let's see Kim Peek take an IQ test. His score would literally be just above room temperature and yet he read the book The Hunt For Red October in 1 hour and 25 minutes. That does not sound like a stupid man to me.
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I resemble this, but I work in I.T.