英语时间逆读：英文悦读智商与命运

英语时间逆读：英文悦读智商与命运A similar follow-up in middle age was done with 450 boys most sons of immigrants two thirdsfrom families on welfare who grew up in Somerville Massachusetts at the time a “blighted slum” a few blocks from Harvard. A third had IQs below 90. But again IQ had little relationship to how well they had done at work or in the rest of their lives; for instance 7 percent of men with IQs under 80 were

I remember the fellow in my own class at Amherst College who had attained five perfect 800scores on the SAT and other achievement tests he took before entering. Despite hisformidable intellectual abilities he spent most of his time hanging out staying up late andmissing classes by sleeping until noon. It took him almost ten years to finally get his degree. 我记得在阿默斯特学院时有位同班同学，进大学之前他参加过 SAT 考试和其他成绩测验，得了 5 个 800 分满分。虽然他的智商很高，可是他大部分时间都在闲荡、熬夜、缺课，一般要睡到中午才起来。他花了差不多十年时间才终于拿到了学位。

IQ offers little to explain the different destinies of people with roughly equal promises schooling and opportunity. When ninety-five Harvard students from the classes of the 1940s—a time when people with a wider spread of IQ were at Ivy League schools than is presently thecase — were followed into middle age the men with the highest test scores in college were not particularly

successful compared to their lower-scoring peers in terms of salary productivity or status in their field. Nor did they have the greatest life satisfaction nor the most happiness with friendships family and romantic relationships.

对于前景、培训、机会大致相同的人而其命运却大不一样的情况，智商不一定能做出很好的解释。当 95 名 20 世纪 40 年代的哈佛学生——那时上常青藤名牌大学的学生智商差别要比现在大得多——被跟踪调查到其中年时，发现大学时期成绩最优秀者在薪酬、生产能力、地位方面和成绩较差者相比并不是特别成功，他们对生活的满意度并非最高，他们的友情、亲情、爱情也并不是最幸福美满。

A similar follow-up in middle age was done with 450 boys most sons of immigrants two thirdsfrom families on welfare who grew up in Somerville Massachusetts at the time a “blighted slum” a few blocks from Harvard. A third had IQs below 90. But again IQ had little relationship to how well they had done at work or in the rest of their lives; for instance 7 percent of men with IQs under 80 were unemployed for ten or more years but so were 7 percent of men with IQ over 100.To be sure there was a general link (as there always is) between IQ and socioeconomic level at age forty-seven. But childhood abilities such as being able to handle frustrations control emotions and get on with other people made the greater difference.