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Old 03-03-2008, 04:19 PM   #153
itsover9thousand
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If you want to get the smartest students, ask for their IQ
That's probably not going to do top colleges all that much for them.
My 160+ IQ cousin failed out of UConn because he has no work ethic.
Well, yeah. I didn't say that you could get the hardest working students by asking for IQ, just the smartest ones. There's plenty of really lazy high IQ students out there that go to mediocre colleges for that reason. Smart != hard working.

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even if we do accept that there is an IQ difference among races, i doubt that such a small difference would make any significant difference.
It depends, really. When you're talking about small numbers, like several hundred or several dozen people, you're right in saying that it doesn't make a significant difference. However, when you're talking about tens, if not hundreds of millions of people, a shift in 3 IQ points is huge.
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