Ever been frustrated at work that a "not so smart" co-worker seems to perform better than you at all the things that matter? Or, better, ever been puzzled why someone much much smarter than you manages to consistent mess up at work and not fare well at performance reviews?
Recently came across this interesting little article that covers this aspect, amongst others.
At fault may be our notion of "smartness" of course...
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The link between, say, I.Q. and job performance is distinctly underwhelming. On a scale where 0.1 or below means virtually no correlation and 0.7 or above implies a strong correlation (your height, for example, has a 0.7 correlation with your parents’ height), the correlation between I.Q. and occupational success is between 0.2 and 0.3. “What I.Q. doesn’t pick up is effectiveness at common-sense sorts of things, especially working with people,” Richard Wagner, a psychologist at Florida State University, says. “In terms of how we evaluate schooling, everything is about working by yourself. If you work with someone else, it’s called cheating. Once you get out in the real world, everything you do involves working with other people.”
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