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WarmWashyesterday at 2:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

Intelligence correlates highly with not having anti-social behaviors.

So a lot of the time, it's not "being smart" that carries you to wealth, its avoiding the "disastrously stupid things" that stops you from being poor.


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triceratopsyesterday at 6:28 PM

> Intelligence correlates highly with not having anti-social behaviors.

If we're talking about IQ, then there isn't strong evidence for this.

hirvi74yesterday at 7:40 PM

Looking at all the horrible and macabre weapons of warfare, destruction, and death that humans have created, I find it hard to believe those instruments were imagined, engineered, and developed by unintelligent individuals.

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atomic_reedyesterday at 5:07 PM

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