Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu)

Science_afficionado writes: Psychologists at Vanderbilt University have conducted the first study of individual variation in visual ability. They have discovered that there is a broad range of differences in people's capability for recognizing and remembering novel objects and this ability is not associated with individuals' general intelligence, or IQ.
Or, as the article puts it, "Just because someone is smart and well-motivated doesn't mean he or she can learn the visual skills needed to excel at tasks like matching fingerprints, interpreting medical X-rays, keeping track of aircraft on radar displays or forensic face matching."

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[Anonymous Coward]

It's amazing that people bought into the meritocracy scam at all. Some older boomers* still do, but now people are waking up to the fact that class mobility has completely ossified.
You can be as intelligent, educated, and skilled as you like, but with the collapse of the middle class, your ability will get you nowhere.

*Their opinion soon won't matter because we're going to murder them all soon anyway.

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[AmiMoJo]

Some people just want to believe that there is a scientific, objective way to measure a person's worth. They usually think they are near the top of the ranking, especially if they also cling to the idea of racial intelligence.