Re: IQ versus effort
When I was young I was pretty smart, but in the example given I would definitely take the hard test, I thought smart kids usually wanted to be the smartest for bragging rights. I especially tried hard at exams in school which were not subject based but those broad based university exams (we have in Australia i'm not sure about USA). Simply because I knew it was the leveling exam so if I did well I could rub it in the nose of people who were smarter in Subjects we could study for which I did not do. Maybe this is more caught up in Ego than IQ.
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