I hear people say that high IQ doesn’t mean you are automatically good at something, but what does it mean then, in terms of physical properties of the brain? And how do they translate to one’s abilities?
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I think the best answer is close to what another person commented here:
Shape and spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, memory, sometimes things like reading comprehension, vocabulary and logic, and I would add also processing speed, but I wanted to add some anecdotal experience of mine. I have a very high IQ score, sitting at 148, (while having crippling ADHD) and I routinely tutor people with recorded scores of 80-90, who have been tested because of testing for discalculia and dyslexia, as well as some extremely brilliant STEM undegrads. The difference in learning between me or the STEM undergrads and the people with an IQ in the 80-90s is staggering. They need things spelled out explicitly, can’t generalize or really struggle with that (example: they can solve 2A = 10, then A = 5, but they can’t understand quickly 2X= K), struggle with logical inferences, are way slower in “connecting dots” and identifying causal relationships, and struggle way more in following logical reasoning and coming up with their own. With patience, consistency in their craft’s practice and a good teaching method they can get very good results, but they are simply slower and since they struggle to traslate what they learned in one field to another one they often incurr in many roadblocks.
Though I truly do think communicating their IQ results to them is harmful, because when people close themselves up in “roles” -as, for example, the “dumb one”- it’s very hard to get them to even try, worsening the situation immensely.
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