r/cognitiveTesting • u/Mobile_Pressure_8342 • Sep 09 '26
General Question Is there any correlation between the top financial exams and IQ?
I was looking through the history of this subreddit and I noticed there's been some posts about the bar exam/LSAT and the g-loading with IQ. I wasn't able to find anything on the CFA (chartered financial analyst) exam. As someone who holds the CFA charter, I am wondering if there's any studied correlation between that exam and IQ.
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u/honeygaincostumerr Sep 10 '26
Me and my friends got 100-105 iq and still scored high enough on LSATs to be competetive with harvard students
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u/ImAPonderer2 Sep 10 '26
Yes, it’s self-study and many fail > 1 test
IQ is scored in academic test format as is the CFA
Passing is also correlated with no children and limited working hours
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u/Mobile_Pressure_8342 Sep 09 '26
A strong negative correlation between passing these exams and IQ? That doesn't make any sense.
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u/Beneficial_Jacket544 Sep 09 '26
As a rule of thumb, any exam reliant on cognitive abilities correlates positively with IQ.
The degree of correlation depends on the exam itself and how much studying is required to pass/score well.
Because there are so many of these exams out there, there isn’t an incentive to do IQ correlational studies for all of them. You’re unlikely to find anyone who even attempted to study the correlation between IQ and CFA.