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If this is true, then I suppose that smarter people are also richer.
Happiness > Wealth Accumulation. Depends on what you're optimising your life for. Money is very easy to measure, work/life balance, family and other factors are all incredibly difficult to measure and are arguably more important. Plenty of relatively poor people have extremely happy lives.
Personally 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…
I 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.
I prefer to think of "smart" as a vector, I'm more interested in the dot-product with the situation at hand.
If this is true, then I suppose that smarter people are also richer.
Happiness > Wealth Accumulation. Depends on what you're optimising your life for. Money is very easy to measure, work/life balance, family and other factors are all incredibly difficult to measure and are arguably more important. Plenty of relatively poor people have extremely happy lives.
I prefer to think of "smart" as a vector, I'm more interested in the dot-product with the situation at hand.
Interesting take! But don't you think that smartness would be something that would work across all/many domains?
I'm not sure you can say that it's a single dimension, and plenty of people who are very educated or have had impressive careers in one field seem out of their depth in some other area. There's definitely some skill under that all that can transfer, but you'd need to cut through a lot of other traits to try and identify it and it might not be 'smarts'. (Persistence or motivation seem like large factors.)
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Happiness > Wealth Accumulation. Depends on what you're optimising your life for. Money is very easy to measure, work/life balance, family and other factors are all incredibly difficult to measure and are arguably more important. Plenty of relatively poor people have extremely happy lives.
If you have to work to survive you are working class, simple as. Life's much happier without survival struggle
Maybe that's what many smart people choose and why they are not rich.