Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study
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#2Ooh, that's a much better explanation for my zillion half-finished projects. I'm not an undisciplined perfectionist, I'm just too intelligent. :)
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#3Re: Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study
#4Ooh, that's a much better explanation for my zillion half-finished projects. I'm not an undisciplined perfectionist, I'm just too intelligent. :)
Damn straight.
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#6On the other hand, "more intelligent" people's brains work less hard during reasoning.
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#7The "less likely to jump to conclusions" is the important part. This doesn't necessarily mean they are slower at processing information.
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#8> The findings challenge the assumption that higher intelligence is the result of a faster brain. They suggest that faster is not necessarily better, and that under certain circumstances there is a tradeoff between speed and accuracy which results in better decisions.
Talk about conflating different aspects of something to arrive at faulty logic.
There clearly is a relationship between higher intelligence and a faster brain, to some degree. However faster thinking enables more sophisticated searching of complex problem spaces.
Re: Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study
#9Ooh, that's a much better explanation for my zillion half-finished projects. I'm not an undisciplined perfectionist, I'm just too intelligent. :)
Maybe subclinical ADHD?
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#10People who don't attempt the answer just guess, which takes less time than solving. News at 11.