Peterdjones comments on My Childhood Death Spiral - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 21 May 2011 05:15:23PM 1 point [-]

Looking at the world, people with an IQ of 130 or 160 may have an advantage in a few areas, but "winning at life" really doesn't seem to be one of them.

I suspect you will find a correlation between the two. Certainly, if you examined the world's 100 richest people I would be very surprised if the average IQ wasn't well above 100. The question is, why does intelligence not reliably lead to winning.

Comment author: Peterdjones 21 May 2011 07:43:02PM *  1 point [-]

Winning at what? Maybe highly intelligent people are happy in unremunerative occupations such as writing or academia. Since they are smarter than us, they might well be right.

Case in Point