magfrump comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2010 04:36PM

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Comment author: magfrump 13 January 2010 04:33:39AM 0 points [-]

Some people seem to or claim to gain status from intelligence, especially academics.

Aside from that I believe (though I don't really have evidence) that it is in evidence that high status and intelligence correlate somewhat, though this correlation breaks down at very high levels of intelligence (but not at high levels of status as far as I know).