Intelligence--Life Chances

Life Chances

Figure 1 (above). Overall Life Chances at Different Ranges of the Bell Curve

The figure above shows why psychometric g, or general intelligence, matters: it is highly related to people's life chances. You can also go to a more technical discussion of different structural models of g.


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