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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 20 March 2016 07:57:29PM *  2 points [-]
Comment author: James_Miller 21 March 2016 03:45:16PM *  12 points [-]

Not according to Razib Khan who writes in part:

"A new paper on which has some results on life satisfaction, intelligence and the number of social interactions one has has generated some mainstream buzz....The figure above shows the interaction effect between intelligence, life satisfaction, and number of times you meet up with friends over the week. What you see is that among the less intelligent more interactions means more life satisfaction and among the more intelligent you see the reverse...But take a look at the y-axis...The effect here is very small....These are not actionable results for anyone."