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Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study

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Re: Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study

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Ooh, 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.

In the words of Calvin and Hobbes, "You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, MINE are even WORSE!""

Re: Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study

#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.

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