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Coacher comments on Open thread, Mar. 14 - Mar. 20, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Coacher 14 March 2016 12:04:58PM 1 point [-]

Another hypothesis - the smarter you sound the less friends you tend to have.

Comment author: username2 14 March 2016 01:58:16PM 5 points [-]

the less friends you tend to have

Fewer!

Comment author: OrphanWilde 15 March 2016 08:06:27PM 2 points [-]

Most people like having at least one smart friend.

The trick is not to make other people feel stupid, which many (most?) smart people are very bad at.

Comment author: Lumifer 14 March 2016 03:00:44PM 0 points [-]

the smarter you sound the less friends you tend to have

I suspect it's more of a golden middle kind of thing -- people out in both tails of the distribution tend to have social problems.