Intelligence and flying
Just catching up on some reading when I came across an interesting article in Science (vol. 299, p192 2003 if you must know!). Reviewing studies of the usefulness of the IQ score (sometimes abbreviated to "g" for general intelligence), Linda Gottfredson claims that people who score poorly on IQ tests also have more accidents. (There's a table correlating IQ score with death rates from car accidents).
Here's the thing. Remarkably, she says, "the only accidental death not correlated with lower g is death in a private plane."
Hmmmm. What do you make of that?!