| ▲ | jojobas 5 hours ago |
| Prisons have a lower-than-general-population-iq for a reason. |
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| ▲ | howunfortunate 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| The effect of getting caught is only half the story there; IQ is more generally correlated with all manner of "low time preference" type decision making. |
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| ▲ | jojobas 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | There's plenty of high-time-preference crimes. | | |
| ▲ | howunfortunate 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not really. Almost definitionally (because of the way we've built society over time, not by semantics or chance) crimes are a "shortcut" compared to the honest alternative. |
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