Comment by man-and-laptop

There are psychologists today who think that higher IQ is a cause of greater wealth and success. I wasn't referring to the original incarnation of IQ theory, which was designed to identify children who needed more attention from their teachers. It then morphed into a justification for racial discrimination. I still hear concepts like country IQ and racial IQ being brought up in conversations. Admittedly, the people talking about this are non-psychologists, but some of them appear to reference the psychology literature.