Should IQ be a requirement?

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by Rexmons

i personally think it should be a requirment for some jobs. i think perry winkle's heart is in the right place when he said if you're at least born average you should be able to do whatever you want, however there are TONS of jobs that mandate certain physical requirments, such as professional athletes, fire fighters, ninjas...

My heart doesn't enter into it. Physical requirements are easy to measure: speed, strength, whatever. However, IQ is a good indicator of potential, but it is not a hard and fast measure of intelligence or aptitude for a specific task.

Discriminating based on a task's physical requirements makes sense (if you also take into account other qualifications also). Using IQ to determine whether someone can complete a task is nonsense.

Ideally, you discriminate based on past accomplishments (education, work experience, references, whatever) and physical ability to do the work. You can't use one in exclusion of the other and make a good decision.

If someone with average IQ has shown they can do the job as well as I can, let them do it.

(I hope that made sense. I usually don't make serious posts...)