It&#x27;s also telling that &quot;genetically inherited IQ&quot; always happens to appear in discussions about &quot;race&quot;, as if our crude racial classifications represent semantically meaningful genetic variations as it relates to general intelligence.<p>Whatever role genetics play in IQ are most certainly not manifested in the concentration of melanin in one&#x27;s skin or the coarseness of one&#x27;s hair or the color of one&#x27;s eyes or the size of one&#x27;s nose or any of the other crude heuristics we use to group people up as &quot;races&quot;.<p>Still, even with a racial component to genetic IQ, we know that &quot;tech&quot; is not some enlightened trade where only high IQ employees are considered, outside of the elite firms like Google, Apple etc you&#x27;re going to find a glut of pretty average programmers and plenty of idiots to boot.