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Having lots of friends and socialising makes intelligent people miserable (2016)
- chalst 10y agoMuch though I hate voting up a Daily Mail article, this is interesting. I've posted the abstract of the study behind this story at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836648 but that is just the abstract.
- knn 10y agotenuous.
- chalst 10y agoWikipedia has an article about one of the authors of the study, Satoshi Kanazawa, that explains why he is so controversial - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa
- ploika 10y agoI see we've reached peak HN early today.
- confounded 10y agoThe Daily Mail's science reporting is just about the worst there is. They've spent years sensationally classifying almost everything on earth into things that either cause or cure cancer (often the same things).
- confounded 10y agoThe Daily Mail's science reporting is just about the worst there is. They've spent years sensationally classifying almost everything on earth into things that either cause or cure cancer (often the same things).
- mizchief2 10y agoWould be interested to see if this changes when intelligent people are socializing more with other intelligent people vs. average people. I just have no interest hanging around people that just parrot mainstream talking points or don't have anything to say beyond meaningless chit-chat and having to interact on that level to fit in just becomes exhausting. It's also a matter of being friends with people who just don't have their shit together and the benefits are very one-sided. Constantly having to bail them out or do favors and while they would do the same for me, I just don't require favors that often.