HughRistik 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: Jack 13 January 2010 09:43:59PM 4 points [-]

For instance, many highly intelligent people are introverts, yet extraversion is probably an advantage for leadership.

Is this true? Or are highly intelligent introverts just more likely to put there intelligence into book learning and paper writing that make it easier to evaluate their intelligence?

Comment author: HughRistik 14 January 2010 12:12:04AM 1 point [-]

The Wikipedia page on introversion and extraversion cites a couple studies suggesting a link between introversion and intelligence/giftedness, such as this study.

A bit more Googling lead me to a study using Big Five extraversion finds that the relationship might be more complex.