| ▲ | WarmWash a day ago |
| Intelligence correlates highly with not having anti-social behaviors. So a lot of the time, it's not "being smart" that carries you to wealth, its avoiding the "disastrously stupid things" that stops you from being poor. |
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| ▲ | triceratops 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Intelligence correlates highly with not having anti-social behaviors. If we're talking about IQ, then there isn't strong evidence for this. |
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| ▲ | hirvi74 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Looking at all the horrible and macabre weapons of warfare, destruction, and death that humans have created, I find it hard to believe those instruments were imagined, engineered, and developed by unintelligent individuals. |
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| ▲ | WarmWash 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | They weren't. Intelligent people can be anti-social too, and usually with terrifying large scale outcomes. But thankfully, most crime in the aggregate is done by unintelligent people. | | |
| ▲ | hirvi74 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | If a child shows some sort of exceptional proclivity for academics, then I strongly believe there needs to be an examination for empathy and pro-social behaviors prior to being enrolled in some sort of advanced program. > most crime in the aggregate is done by unintelligent people. That is a tough one. For I believe there is more to reality than what data can currently capture. While I do agree that most violent crime is carried out by unintelligent people, there is an untold amount of crimes being committed by individuals that are average to beyond intelligent. So, I would argue the unintelligent ones get caught more frequently and that skews the perception that they commit more crime. | | |
| ▲ | Jensson 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | > If a child shows some sort of exceptional proclivity for academics, then I strongly believe there needs to be an examination for empathy and pro-social behaviors prior to being enrolled in some sort of advanced program. Luckily that is no longer needed, as in capitalism such a person can provide good value to society just via greed. He shouldn't be a leader, but a greedy engineer isn't an issue. |
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| ▲ | atomic_reed a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
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