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You're also liable to perceive people with low social skills as less intelligent than they are, because the social situation is too hard a burden on their processing capacities.
It's not really surprising that people's intelligence seems to be rarely overestimated, though, is it? Smartness is impossible to fake, but you can fake stupidity.
But yes, of course, for various purposes, IQ is not the one thing that we need to know. Who would have doubted that?
The right jargon, and sounding like you know stuff (otherwise called being assertive), goes a long way.
Fluidly using the right jargon, and signaling that you 'know stuff' without sounding like you're trying hard too show that you know stuff, requires a fair amount of intelligence. (Incidentally, an inability to maintain a natural flow of conversation when someone knows a lot of stuff is one way highly intelligent people reveal that their social acuity is not that high. Their IQ may be extremely high, but a five minute interview can often easily identify these things.)
A certain degree of being articulate and appropriately assertive can be trained – I think I see this happen in the military. However, I don't think it's a fake signal, I think this training really results in greater general intelligence, or greater ability to succeed in any case.