Will there ever be a study on brilliant failures? I have been tested as having a very high IQ, but within that  a very slow visual processing speed. By almost any societal  measure I'm a failure, and  I am  certainly deemed  an outlier  according to all these studies, as well as social science data . I would love to understand why I'm such a failure, but nobody wants to study the outliers for patterns. Grad students? PhD students?  ...We are out here, living lives of quiet desperation, just waiting for you to tell us where we dropped the ball. I promise we'd be interesting subjects.,(reply>), @asdrt The fear of racism prevents any progress learning the WHY of the differences. The biggest thing you mentioned was there is no evidence that higher IQ leads to happier people. Happiness may in fact be completely at odds with high IQ in some groups. But we will never know will we?,(reply>), @asdrt The real problem is the mainstream refuses to acknowledge the variance between racial groups and IQ. It is viewed as a taboo subject and cannot be discussed scientifically. Do you have a solution to that?,(reply>), talent (e.g., IQ) and effort are likely multiplicative factors. that means when talent is high, if effort = 0, the level of talent matters not. you may have also just chosen the wrong career for yourself.,(reply>), Intelligence is one of the best correlates we have of life success, but it still doesn't correlate very strongly (explains 10% of variance in income, etc). So it isn't surprising there are lot of high IQ failures. Even when X and Y have a strong correlation, not all X will be Y (not all smokers get lung cancer for instance).<br>As systemic environmental factors don't seem to be half as important as IQ, "Luck" (non systematic chance events) seems to be the over-riding factor.,(reply>), I dont know you but I already know you have no relationship with God. Until you let go and give Him control you will struggle and falter. God bless.