Makes one yearn for the days of "The Front Page". No J-school, but cub reporters cut their teeth on the police beat, where the parade of drunks and floozies cured them of any false ideas regarding human nature. They never lectured the public, to their everlasting credit.
Tldr: the people who shape how others think tend to be pretty good at thinking -- and they also tend to deny the importance of IQ differences in ability to think.https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1244261836456951810 …
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But, they often seem to be innumerate and scientifically illiterate. They may be smart, but it is still very important to learn logic and mathematical intuition.
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Their social background is also limited to people of the same background and IQ
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Bringing in Haidt’s
to this. That would explain how such people are able to justify almost any position they hold and defend it to the last. - 2 more replies
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Lying is g-loaded.
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Will be looking for the 1%er tag in bios now. lol
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I'm guessing family wealth would overlay similarly. And the generation of wealth correlates to risk tolerance more than IQ. Though high IQ plus high risk tolerance trumps (ha) all.
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Sadly smarter people are more convincing liars and are more adept at spin hence the problem we have with much of the current media. They're intelligence isn't the issue their honestly is.
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One the one hand, the denialism is a manifestation of the egalitarian spirit of American citizenship: they don't want to believe they are smarter than others. On the other hand, the denialism is massive cognitive dissonance
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