I know there's a stereotype about sports players being idiots, but it makes sense. IQ measures the ability to recognise patterns and react quickly to emerging circumstances. It's not hard to see how that would help with team sports.
I know there's a stereotype about sports players being idiots, but it makes sense. IQ measures the ability to recognise patterns and react quickly to emerging circumstances. It's not hard to see how that would help with team sports.
Perhaps at the highest levels of anything you would find higher IQs. I really don't know. Usually, stereotypes are based on reality, and my own experience has lived up to the stereotype (with exceptions, of course). Like I say, innate ability isn't everything. In college, the football players had it twice as hard as most everyone else, because they had a full time job playing football and had to to go to school.
Perhaps at the highest levels of anything you would find higher IQs. I really don't know. Usually, stereotypes are based on reality, and my own experience has lived up to the stereotype (with exceptions, of course). Like I say, innate ability isn't everything. In college, the football players had it twice as hard as most everyone else, because they had a full time job playing football and had to to go to school.
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