Wealth not caused by intelligence.

[Eric J in MN]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070425/ts_alt_afp/ussocietymoney_070425002333

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Intelligence has nothing to do with wealth, according to a US study published Tuesday which found that people with below average smarts were just as wealthy as those with higher IQ scores.

"People don't become rich because they are smart," said Jay Zagorsky, research scientist at Ohio State University whose study appears in the Journal Intelligence.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics survey included 7,403 Americans who have been interviewed repeatedly since 1979. Based on 2004 answers, people who are now in their mid-40s showed no link between brain- and earning-power.

"Your IQ has really no relationship to your wealth...."

The article goes on to say that smart people have slightly higher income than people of average intelligence. Income is different from wealth, which isn't correlated to intelligence.

[Fresh_Start]

1. We have Bush for president, we know wealth is made in the womb

if you're born into wealthy womb, you are wealthy whether or not you deserve it

[evlbstrd]

2. The inverse is also true.

Wealth doesn't make you intelligent.

[applegrove]

3. Duh! It is luck or/and business acumen or/and hard work. Intellect has nothing

to do with it.

[rzemanfl]

4. Greed doesn't factor into this at all? n/t

[applegrove]

10. Some people who get rich just like doing their job. It wasn't a goal. I don't

think you can say that all people of any one group (people getting rich) are greedy.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Lots of smart people have no desire to be wealthy.

Having enough is plenty. Any more than that is a burden.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. No shit Sherlock!

:bounce: I'm feeling ornery tonight!

[Octafish]

7. Bush makes money the old fashioned way...

...he STEALS it.

It's so easy, even a caveman can do it.

[leftofthedial]

8. and never a better example

than America's wealthy "elite" ruling class

[MazeRat7]

9. Well that should give or bash the hopes of many who will see this post.. -nt