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Veteran Member
Can high intelligence be a burden rather than a boon?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150413-the-downsides-of-being-clever
Some bites and snips from the article:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150413-the-downsides-of-being-clever
Some bites and snips from the article:
For this reason, Terman concluded that “intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated”. Nor did their smarts endow personal happiness. Over the course of their lives, levels of divorce, alcoholism and suicide were about the same as the national average
many reported that they had been plagued by the sense that they had somehow failed to live up to their youthful expectations.
That is, they are less able to see their own flaws, even when though they are quite capable of criticising the foibles of others. And they have a greater tendency to fall for the “gambler’s fallacy” – the idea that if a tossed coin turns heads 10 times, it will be more likely to fall tails on the 11th
high number of Mensa members believe in the paranormal; or why someone with an IQ of 140 is about twice as likely to max out their credit card.
“The people pushing the anti-vaccination meme on parents and spreading misinformation on websites are generally of more than average intelligence and education.”