New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions
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#2I think IQ is an incredibly bad measure of anything. So many IQ smart people I know make bad decisions and it's always because they don't judge other people well.
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#3Personally I think IQ and practical intelligence differs for a person. I have know many IQ smart people that can solve complex problems but fail to solve or foresee everyday basic problems
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#4I think IQ is an incredibly bad measure of anything. So many IQ smart people I know make bad decisions and it's always because they don't judge other people well.
Okay but dampen their IQ and you end up with worse. Lead poisoning robs a nation of a generation.
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#5I prefer to think of "smart" as a vector, I'm more interested in the dot-product with the situation at hand.
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#6Personally I think IQ and practical intelligence differs for a person. I have know many IQ smart people that can solve complex problems but fail to solve or foresee everyday basic problems
Right, IQ measures some abstract mental capacity, not knowledge. It's not very useful on its own.
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#7Personally I think IQ and practical intelligence differs for a person. I have know many IQ smart people that can solve complex problems but fail to solve or foresee everyday basic problems
My amateur theory is that basic problems are boring for them and they don't try enough to solve everyday problems
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#8..because they're smarter.
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#9Personally I think IQ and practical intelligence differs for a person. I have know many IQ smart people that can solve complex problems but fail to solve or foresee everyday basic problems
Intelligence isn't one dimensional, but the parameters do tend to have a correlation on average. Higher IQ usually means higher other forms of intelligence -- on average.
That being said, the caveat "on average" must always be added. On average, on average, on average. Same goes with anything about average tendencies of different genders. On average, on average, on average, averages across large groups do not map to individuals in that group. Emboss that on a mallet and bash people over the head with it until they get it.
I do wonder if there might be some conservation at play in some individual cases -- which kinda matches what you said. There is only so much brain tissue. If you're hyper-good at some narrow kind of analytical intelligence (coding!) maybe some of that brain tissue is borrowed from other things it might be doing like understanding other meat sacks.
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#10I think IQ is an incredibly bad measure of anything. So many IQ smart people I know make bad decisions and it's always because they don't judge other people well.
How does it compare to the number of IQ smart people you know who do less bad decisions than you do? How does this rate look like for the IQ stupid?