I read in Steve Sailer's blog today about some articles Charles Murray has written for the WSJ. (Murray wrote the book "The Bell Curve" which is denounced by most Liberals who generally don't like to acknowledge that there is such a thing as the g-factor.) Murray takes the position that programs such as "no child left behind" are unlikely to succeed because teachers cannot increase the native intelligence of their students. That seems obvious to me. Some interesting opinions by Murray are that the high school curricula is challenging for a person with an IQ of 100. (About half of the population has an IQ of less than 100.) It takes an IQ of 115 to be successful in college. Only about one-third of the population has an IQ above that level, yet about half of people are going to college. It takes an IQ of 120 or so to succeed in fields such as Engineering, Physics, or Natural Sciences. Murray points out that too many people who are capable of succeeding in the sciences are taking law. Murray also points out the need for the elite to acquire wisdom.

I often think about my own life spent in Engineering. Those of us working in Engineering in large companies are somewhat divorced from the real world since we spend our time in an environment of people who all have higher than average intelligence. It is sometimes a shock to deal with people in the real world. But, one observation I have made is that many of those people in the real world have considerable wisdom. I don't think there is a strong correlation between IQ and wisdom.