Psychology suggests IQ only contributes 20% to success, with the remainder split across different types of intelligences.
Dr. Howard Gardner’s 1983 book, “Frames of mind”; demonstrates that there are different types, common to all cultures – each with its own pattern of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others.
These comprised linguistic, musical and logical/mathematical capacities, as well as spatial and bodily intelligences, and the ability to arrive at an emotional and mental sense of self and other people.
Rather than reducing an individual’s potential to a single score on an IQ test, it is the fostering and education of all of these metrics that should be addressed.