What is the reason behind IQ differences between people?

Question

Take this example:
Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft has an iq of 160- that is 10 points above genius level. His intelligence may have been the reason why he has created the company Microsoft. I have an iq score of 120- this is 40 points below bill - it is no wonder i cannot achieve such brilliance.

Answer 1

I call BS on the whole concept.



I've never known my IQ. Most people who know me think I am pretty smart.. Yet I haven't achieved greatness either in business or in my personal life.



A person like Sam Walton, the founder of WalMart was, by many accounts, just an average guy. He never stuck me as having genius level IQ, yet he created a business that continues to dominate the American marketplace.



If you took the IQ scores of everyone on the planet, you would find that the scores range in a "bell curve" with the large bulk of all people's scores hovering right in the middle. Some of those people are "great" others aren't. Some of the geniuses labor in obscurity while "dumber" people rule the World.



IQ scores do not predict life's successes or failures.

Answer 2

Weird question for the A&S section, but I'll answer anyways.



First of all...



"Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft has an iq of 160- that is 10 points above genius level."



160 is 20 points higher than what is considered genius level on an IQ classification chart.



"I have an iq score of 120- this is 40 points below bill - it is no wonder i cannot achieve such brilliance."



Richard Feynman purportedly had an IQ of 124 and he substantiated contributions to the development of quantum physics and won the Nobel Prize in physics. It isn't your IQ that matters, it is how you use that potential. An IQ of 120 is really good, but don't think that IQ is a good predictor of success.



"Is it biological or environmental?"



It is actually both. The environmental contributions have the greatest influence in the earlier stages of life because the brain of younger people has a higher rate of neuroplasticity (the malleability of the brain). Genetic contributions are more apparent the older you get. The reason for this is because as you get older, environmental influences become less effective. The neural connections rate slows down the older you get, and by the time you're 16, genetics contribute to 80% of your intelligence. Throughout most of a person's life IQ doesn't change that drastically.

Answer 3

IQ has nothing to do with how much one knows.... but how one THINKS..... some folks just don't think the same way that others do...... it's got a lot to do with common sense.... if I'm presented with a problem, how I go about solving it is the mark of what my IQ might be.... if I see several different ways to solve it, including easier ones and harder ones, I'm a little better at thinking than the guy who looks at the same problem and can't find a way to solve it.... or only sees one way.....



Bill Gates is not so much a genius as he is a guy with a great idea and a vision of how to make it workable..... a problem solver extraordinaire!!!....



biological or environmental?... both.... you need to have the capacity, which translates to brain power, which could come from your early diet..... and then you might have had a stimulating environment in your early life, a good imagination, full of questions that GOT ANSWERS or at least placated you..... those who don't get the good nutrition and the best stimulation, just don't develop the same way as those who do..... and, genetics do come into it.... it goes all the way to the synapses and how they fire.....and how the connections are made....

Answer 4

Nobody has any idea what IQ is, not even the people who write the tests to measure it. As for why, the only thing anybody knows for sure is that a kid's IQ will be higher if people expect it to be higher. That's the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Answer 5

Well i can tell you from 10th grade to 12th grade my IQ went up, IQ and intelligence to me is the ability to think, if you have a good thought process and understanding then you can get a better score, the more you learn the more you can think, the more you think the more you understand.

Answer 6

IQ is all Bullocks.



Set goals and work hard to achieve them. That's all you need.