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MichaelVassar comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong
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"Did I miss anything important?"
Yeah. Maybe the observation is false to begin with. I doubt high status people are less intelligent. We just expect more from them because we are supposed to be able to look up to them. They are probably intelligent people who are no more intelligent than other low status intelligent people. They disappoint us because they are only as smart, not more smart, when compared to others of the same IQ level.
I've met enough high-status people to get over the initial shock about some of them being stupid. So I don't think that my remaining disappointment is a contrast with my expectations; I think it is a genuine contrast with grad students.