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> Although the reasons are not fully understood, they also tend to live longer, healthier lives, and are less likely to experience negative life events such as
by SimeVidas 6y ago
> Although the reasons are not fully understood, they also tend to live longer, healthier lives, and are less likely to experience negative life events such as bankruptcy.
I’ll tell you why. Smart people listen to experts. Dumb people listen to other dumb people based on feeling.
Case in point, the current pandemic. High-IQ people will get vaccinated. The people who won’t because of various conspiracy theories and misinformation are probably all low-IQ, so more of them will die.
- large 6y agoTo be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand rick and morty...
- rendall 6y agoConspiracy thinking doesn't seem to correlate with IQ. I suspect it is an emotional issue.
- SimeVidas 6y agoConspiracy thinking is correlated with a lack of logic and critical thinking, which are correlated with high IQ.
- rendall 6y agoOne would think so, but not so much. MENSA forums are rife with conspiracy theories, as any MENSA member can attest. Anecdata, but shrug. It's all anyone has, AFAIK. I suspect that high IQ people are in fact more susceptible to conspiracy thinking than most. The randomness of the universe is scary. Sometimes bad things happen to good people for no reason. Much easier emotionally for some to live in a world where things happen for a reason, even if that reason is due to malevolent intent. At least a malevolent conspiracy can be fought or exposed or understood. IQ measures pattern recognition. If one is mentally ill, or otherwise intent on finding explanations where none exist, one might see patterns where none exist. If you have a high IQ, the more plausible and internally consistent your narratives will be, and since you're generally right about a lot, all the more reason to believe that your theory isn't a theory at all, but reality.
- ksm1717 6y agoNot a member of Mensa but I’m going to posit that inoculation is caused by more than iq.
- chrisco255 6y agoI am not getting vaccinated, because I've analyzed that my odds of dying of Covid-19 at my age and health are less than my odds of dying in a car wreck. And I'm comfortable with that risk as opposed to the unknown long-term risks of RNA therapy.
- asidiali 6y agoIt’s not just about you. It’s about protecting those around you in your community more susceptible and vulnerable to the virus.
- chrisco255 6y agoThe RNA therapy doesn't stop you from being contagious. And yes, it IS about me, because it's something being injected into my body. We are all going to get Covid at some point, if you haven't noticed. I can't put that genie back in the bottle. If your risk profile deems that the vaccine is worth it for YOU, then YOU do it. Don't pressure other people to. Their health choices is none of your business.
- asidiali 6y agoI said it’s not just about you. Some things in communities take cooperation, you know?
- chrisco255 6y agoYou have not addressed any of my points and you're just reiterating a trope without providing any critical reasoning. A person who has contracted Covid and gotten over it is almost assuredly less likely to become contagious again than someone who has had the mRNA therapy but not contracted the actual virus. You have no idea what the long-term risks of RNA therapy are. They are brand new. I might change my mind in 10 years. But right now, I'm not getting an mRNA therapy against a virus that both my parents have already survived in their 60s. I'm not getting an mRNA therapy against a 1 in a million chance of dying, in particular when the mRNA therapy itself isn't 100%. It's not going to save anyone's life and it's not prevent anyone from contracting Covid-19.