Don't doubt vIQ is very g-loaded. But apart from that, speech is a major factor in how people socially estimate e/o.
this is all about g, though, most likely. Verbal IQ is just the proxy they happened to use here.
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btw, my thought process on this issue started with, "what is wrong with those postmodernist
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humanities majors and why do people take them seriously?"
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Reminds me of what Taleb calls the "intellectual Yet Idiot" class.
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But yeah, I've long wondered about that phenomenon myself.
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My guess is that w/ many ppl, if they're on the receiving end of a verbose intellectualization by these sorts of
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humanities charlatans, then their brains sort of go into a hyper-receptive mode—like being mesmerized, bc they hear
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Primed for said mesmerization thru domestic indoctrination process that promulgates their dissociative trance?
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