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Comment author: VictoryAtNight 30 July 2011 02:15:01PM *  4 points [-]

It's a well documented trend that criminals in jail for committing more serious crimes, especially the sociopaths and murderers, are generally of higher average individual intelligence (as measured by things like IQ tests) compared with the local population in which they live. And that's just the criminals that get convicted. (Although street crime, on the other hand, tends to have bellow-average IQ perpetrators.)

Studies have also found that areas with populations of lower average intelligence tend to have more crime, but that's a very different statement entirely.

Comment author: Vaniver 06 August 2011 04:36:20PM 2 points [-]

but that's a very different statement entirely.

Huh? That sounds like it calls into questions the implications of the first study- if an IQ 90 person gets arrested for murder in an IQ 85 neighborhood, that has very different implications from an IQ 120 person getting arrested for murder in an IQ 115 neighborhood.