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People with Down syndrome have high life satisfaction.
by wbl 9y ago
People with Down syndrome have high life satisfaction.
- thriftwy 9y agoThat's the problem with humans where life satisfaction seems to be inversely correlated with IQ.
- gwern 9y agoI believe it tends to either be constant or slightly positive, actually. Of course, if all you want is happy people, happiness is heritable and so you can do embryo selection on it or genetically correlated traits like personality factors (for Extraversion & against Neuroticism: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/personality-polygenes-positive-affect-and-life-satisfaction/4DB2BE673BF122FB9A0AF2147EED80C0/core-reader https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-hu... )
- pas 9y agoCould you elaborate on the iq happiness correlation? Possible mechanisms, data, ways to test it, etc?