High IQ does not make you a rocket scientist

School students who score high on IQ tests have always been celebrated as academic heroes in India. Recently, two 11-year-old British students of Indian origin, Kashmea Wahi and Ansuhka Binoy, scored 162/162 in the Mensa IQ test, winning a place in the exclusive Mensa Society. Ecstatic media reports, in both India and the UK, compared them Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
The truth, however, is that making the cut in Mensa does not automatically imply a future in science. “Having a high IQ does not indicate academic excellence or a successful career in physics or pure maths. This is just an indicator of overall intelligence of a person. In the US, we have members who are taxi drivers and fire-fighters,” says Ratan Singh Rathore, a 46-year-old Mensan based in Gurgaon and president of the Delhi chapter.
To explain this point he gives his own example. He undertook the test in 2003 in Germany and scored 145. But Rathore has studied hotel management and worked in hotels and luxury cruises across the world. At present he runs a company that creates software solutions for cruise liners.

[“Source-indiatimes”]