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