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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.