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MichaelVassar comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong
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As someone with extensive experience speaking with intellectually orientated people along the status continuum I would expect you to have a body of observations on which to make your own judgement. Given your own interest in status and signalling I would be surprised if the possibility of such a relationship hadn't occured to you. What does your experience suggest? Do you observe 'stupidity' used to signal status? Does this seem to operate on the level of actually being stupid?
So would I, and yet I would be shocked if I did. Apart from being tantamount to an admission of either stupidity or low status it is also signalling that you are not part of the in group. Not a conservative move at all.
I observe that my performance in chess and go over the course of a game more than regresses to the mean. The farther ahead I get the worse I play.
I notice a similar (not to the mean) regression when I am playing chess and, well, just about everything. I excel under pressure.
It strikes me that these observations are relevant to the opening post but not to the immediate ancestors, at least by content.