/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9989040
Intelligence does not necessarily grant wisdom or self-discipline. You'd be amazed at how many homeless MENSA members there are. (Enough that there's actually a foundation for them here.)

Extreme intelligence (or at least, the ability to resolve IQ tests with extreme efficiency), is a brain abnormality. Obviously, a beneficial one, but an abnormality nonetheless. Brain abnormalities rarely occur in isolation, and among such possible abnormalities, there's a lot more negative possibilities than positive ones.

Thus, among the extremely intelligent, some other abnormality or eccentricity is the rule. Life isn't a point buy system, however, so you do get those rare universally gifted folks, who are good looking, charismatic, and intelligent - and often one gift can make up for a lack in other areas - though just as often, if not more, you have people who have none of those advantages.

>>9881559
INT != WIS

Sadly, there's a lot of high intelligence people who stubbornly believe the stupidest shit, regardless of the evidence against it, and fortunately, stupid people, who are willing to believe things that are entirely beyond their comprehension, but nonetheless accurate.

>>8810548
Collectively, probably not, but individually, highly intelligent individuals are actually much more prone to mental and emotional disorders than the nominally intelligent. They are, by definition, an aberration, and rarely does one mental aberration not include several others and, sadly, negative aberrations are more common that positive ones.

I actually work for a group of psychologist that, as one of its function, does IQ tests regularly, as part of separating learning disabled students from the "severely emotionally disabled". And yes, we quite often end up finding individuals with IQ's in the 150-170's, who are all but entirely dysfunctional.

(At the same time, I feel the need to point out, once again, that IQ tests are not all they are cracked up to be, as /sci/ is so blindly fond of them, but this is one of the few things they are actually good for. ...But that's another rant for another thread.)

Even among the highly functional and highly intelligent - intelligence does not necessarily come with wisdom. This maybe anecdotal, but I know of one girl, for instance, who has tested above 150, multiple times, as have both her parents, both of which have multiple college degrees and are millionaires... Who is currently serving a near life sentence in prison for armed robbery, because she thought it would be fun (as well as entertaining to become a major drug dealer).

However, unlike pic related, life is not a point distribution game. There are a lucky few who have everything in spades - and of course, a lot of unlucky folks who have nothing at all.