What's funny about this is there are so many aspects and fallacies in how people perceive "IQ". There's coordination, interior design, logic, wisdom, theory, finite, conceptual, etc...I know a LOT of people that have poor social intelligence, but exceptional logical/yet very poor wisdom.
Let alone, a gaping hole in a lot of IQ tests is the extrapolation of words from several missing letters...that's wisdom, and regionalism being tested. If one weren't exposed to such a word, it hardly is an indication of intelligence. Anyway. . .
Is the above some kind of metaphor for intelligent furniture??
I'll relate this back to my section on biases in a previous post because, I don't always perceive the proposed coordination when it comes to interior decorating. I'll agree to the shapes and colors jiving in certain ways but, what happens if you want to add or change one thing, that you find essential, and it doesn't match with that over priced "scheme" ?
I think I'll continue to leave my decor in the user friendly coordinated style. It is so much more practical in terms of value and flexibility, for my few needs that will change, a few times over the years, as well as, accomodating all of my wife's continually, ever changing "wants".
I am certainly happy about freedom of opinion...
Has this thread morphed into "what is special about grandmasters?" or is the question still "is there a relationship between IQ and chess skill?" because the two questions have almost nothing to do with each other. There are (I dunno) 1000 GM's in the world so a GM is like a 1 in every 7 million people outlier. And from these outliers we are trying to learn what about a general relationship?
Another valiant effort by @Joey to "herd these cats" into some kind of sensible conceptual framework.
Kinda like Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood) on Rawhide in the 1960s.
Still, you have your work cut out for you.