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Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-at-the-big-brain-on-the-yankee dept.

CWmike writes "A Chinese IT outsourcing company that has started hiring new US computer science graduates to work in Shanghai requires prospective job candidates to demonstrate an IQ of 125 or above on a test it administers to sort out job applicants. In doing so, Bleum Inc. is following a hiring practice it applies to college recruits in China. But a new Chinese college graduate must score an IQ of 140 on the company's test. The lower IQ threshold for new US graduates reflects the fact that the pool of US talent available to the company is smaller than the pool of Chinese talent, Bleum said."

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  1. World is changing by SquarePixel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's quite interesting how you can already predict how the world will change in the upcoming 10-20 years. The Chinese have the workforce (and hence more persons with high IQ), they're used to work hard for a living, and realistic economy. They don't let banks cheat and collapse the country like in the US where everyone must get the latest HDTV, big cars and just spend money on non-important items and entertainment. That is how US has been doing for many many years and loaning more and more money along the way.

    1. Re:World is changing by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Transparent government and democracy do not make a superpower, no matter what we enlightened westerners may think.

      A dictatorship that controls the flow of information, doesn't skim too much off the top and cracks down on corruption in the lower ranks is a quite efficient way of governing a nation. We may not like it, and it goes against everything we in the west believe in, but that doesn't mean it can't work. No electoral circuses or free press that get in your hair.

      As to what extent china will be able to maintain an iron fist when economic prosperity grows is another question, but then he has the guns makes the rules. Heck, a pretty big chunk of the planet isn't quite enamored with the US either and we're still doing business with them.

      As for getting where they are because resources are cheap...isn't that pretty much how all current and past superpowers came to be? They either had resources on their own turf to exploit or went elsewhere to do so.

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    2. Re:World is changing by ortholattice · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's really hard at times for those of us up in the 140s to conceive of why a lot of this stuff isn't common sense. And hence end up spending a lot of time being misunderstood or explaining what ought to be perfectly obvious.

      Perhaps your IQ isn't quite high enough then, since it is hard for you to conceive that. Some of the most accomplished scientists are often also the best teachers, since they are intelligent enough not only to understand the material but also to understand their audience.

    3. Re:World is changing by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Insightful

      intelligent enough not only to understand the material but also to understand their audience

      It takes a whole lot more than raw intelligence to understand people. I have met plenty of folks who are wickedly smart but couldn't read body language or a facial expression if their life depended on it.

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    4. Re:World is changing by tophermeyer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      True, but the WAIS tests are typically considered very reliable IQ tests. This company is using their own test, claiming it is an IQ test. If this test was developed within the company, it is very probably biased toward the industry and company culture. People on the "inside" probably score quiet highly on that test, they know all the right lingo and are more familiar with the problems that company faces. Personally, I would be surprised if this test produced anything close to a normal distribution.

  2. Their banks don't cheat? by sirwired · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their banking industry is largely (if not all the way) corrupt. They take the savings of the people (who do indeed have a high savings rate), and then loan them out to largely state-owned enterprises. Who gets the money is largely politically directed, and has little to do with how likely it is the loan will be paid back.

    Eventually those savers are going to want their money back, and it won't be there. So, it would be accurate to say that Chinese banks haven't collapsed their economy yet.

    So, in the US, all the wasteful spending and foolish loans go to consumers. In China, they go towards state-owned businesses. I'm not sure one way or the other is better.

    SirWired