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May 29, 2007
Podcast for 5/29/07: Interview with Jay Zagorsky
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Kim interviews Jay Zagorsky, a researcher at The Ohio State University, about his research finding no correlation between intelligence and building wealth.
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Length: 10:58
Notes:
2:26 Jay Zagorsky explains where the data for his research came from. The Ohio State Center of Human Resource Research runs a longitudinal survey -- they track people from the time they're teenagers until they die. This group started in 1979.
4:10 Zagorsky says there's a strong relationship between intelligence and income, but not between intelligence and net worth. There was a non-linear relationship between financial difficulty and intelligence.
5:55 People who were least in financial difficulty had an I.Q. of about 115 -- slightly higher than average.
6:26 Zagorsky says this research finds that anyone can rule the financial world; I.Q. has no impact.
6:55 Zagorsky describes the difference between this study and others. This study looked particularly at Baby Boomers, while others haven't.
8:15 Intelligence didn't seem to have an impact in any particular areas of financial distress. In other words, there was no evidence linking higher IQ's to, say, missing credit card payments.
8:42 This research didn't account for various risk factors or people's desire for gratification. I need to have it now vs. I'm willing to defer my satisfaction until the future.
9:33 Zagorsky says he wants to examine the drive to become wealthy and the ability to delay gratification.
Resources:
Ohio State - Center for Human Resource Research
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