People good at math = smart ones?

Seriously now.

The only intelligent people I know are the ones that are good in math. Every professor I had in my life, either in anything math-related or not, was (I eventually got to know) good in math.

So this brings me one old idea, that isn't as wrong as people thought. IQ tests really tell how intelligent someone is, it doesn't matter what other people say about the existence of other "intelligences", it's bullshit. The only intelligent conversations I ever had were with people with high IQ. So fuck the other ones.

Do you people agree?


PS: What do you guys think about this idea: an alien invasion that tests everyone's IQ and kills everyone below 120?

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We can make missiles today. Do we really need a traditional army?
Smart people are already working on this stuff, merely killing of people who have nothing to do with it won't automagically usher in great technological advancements. It will just divert able-minded people to do things we are unlikely to ever fully automate, like janitorial tasks. You are deluding yourself if you think we can do just as well without farmers, garbage drivers, clerks, etc.

Passing laws are just the kind of thing where it's not clear that a high IQ is any help. Intelligent people are just as liable to greed, ideology, elitism and other dangers to a rational system. Lots of intellectuals in both the communist and fascist camps.