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I imagine it's because the attributes that IQ measure could be the same as we use to measure success.

Effectively if your test is based on the skills needed for STEM, and the STEM fields have jobs with high pay and respect, then you're likely to be considered "successful". But the same person could be awful at communication, politics, the arts, and just be ignorant at large to how the world works. They may even be hyper specialized to their field but lack the flexibility in their intelligence to understand other STEM fields (I hear physicists are guilty of this).

Another, simpler answer, could just be that already wealthy people have better access to stable education, so they were already successful in many ways.

Does it though?

It very much doesn't

Hi! Assuming that neurodivergent people can't be socially intelligent is kind of offensive, neurodivergence is a wide spectrum and it manifests differently for everyone.

Also, just because someone seems good at something doesn't mean it's not a massive effort for them, read up about masking :)

You can be mature, well liked, and have leadership and people skills and still be a neurodivergent. Neurodivergent is a very broad category nowadays. People with things like ADHD and ASPD often end up being CEOs or self-employed. They are in fact overrepresented in those kinds of jobs. Not every neurodivergent person is socially inept or immature, to think otherwise is frankly abelism.

Heck even I used to be considered mature and capable at one point. Could never get away from being considered weird though.

Edit: Oh also if you look at the definitions and the way professionals use these terms being gifted is considered a form of special educational needs. Likewise you could easily make the argument that anybody who is gifted is by definition neurodivergent, as being neurodivergent just means you are outside the typical range of human neurology, which gifted people are.

i'm not saying that neurodivergent people are "gifted", i'm saying that the term "gifted" is a euphemism and i don't like the term.

It's a way to ignore the issue of people being different and needing individualized treatment, instead saying that they're "gifted" as if they're just blessed by god to do better in school, which is a toxic idea.

We shouldn't call kids "gifted" and give them the next year's textbook, we should recognize that it's extremely likely they're neurodivergent and need a diagnosis and different adjustments depending on the person. One person might just need a separate room to study in, one person might need permission to sit in the back with headphones on listening to music, one might need an extra teacher who personally helps them out.

gifted people are gifted if you compare them with others (see how there's a graph on the bottom right panel).

if you take out the comparisons, everything is all fine as individuals are who they decide themselves to be.