> Theres something odd about the reasoning in the article thay I cant quite put my finger on Yes, it is all over the place: 1) "Why smart people are better of

> Theres something odd about the reasoning in the article thay I cant quite put my finger on Yes, it is all over the place: 1) "Why smart people are better off with fewer friends" 2) "The higher the population density of the immediate environment, the less happy" - for everyone that is. 3) "[...] one big exception. For more intelligent people, these correlations were diminished or even reversed." 4) "The effect of population density on life satisfaction was [...] twice as large for low-IQ individuals than for high-IQ individuals," COMMENT - So, trusting the writing, presumably low-IQ individuals are more happy in a small town where fewer people are around to socialize with and more unhappy in a big city where more people are around to socialize with. 5) "more intelligent individuals were actually less satisfied with life if they socialized with their friends more frequently." COMMENT - So they have that in common with low-IQ people? This claim contrast oddly with 4) and also the graph pointing out that this is a population wide trend.. 6) "If you're smarter and more able to adapt to things, you may have an easier time reconciling your evolutionary predispositions with the modern world. So living in a high-population area may have a smaller effect on your overall well-being" COMMENT - Then the whole article could be summon up into something a bit shorter basically, smarter people have a relatively easier time than less smart people, no matter whether they are in a small town or a big city. I feel the reason for the sense of oddness stems primarily from point 4 which remains unexplored/explained and stands out against some but not all of the other claims made.