Will_Newsome comments on Rationality Quotes February 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 10 February 2012 11:43:15AM 3 points [-]

(On a related theme:) Intelligent folk may be better at processing evidence and drawing correct conclusions, but this is to some extent counteracted by the massive selection effects on what evidence they actually encounter.

Comment author: JoachimSchipper 10 February 2012 12:06:18PM 5 points [-]

Other than various social effects ("everyone knows about the Pythagorean Theorem"), in what areas do you think intelligent people generally have worse information than their "normal" peers?