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I don't understand why people are making correlations between intelligence and happiness. Seems kind of arbitrary. Why aren't smart people taller?
by 5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
I don't understand why people are making correlations between intelligence and happiness. Seems kind of arbitrary.
Why aren't smart people taller?
- naasking 4y agoPresumably because happiness somewhat follows from material circumstances, and smarter people are more effective at obtaining better material circumstances. There is no such association with tallness.
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y agoYeah, i mean it's a false premise, in my opinion.
- naasking 4y agoIQ correlates pretty well with various measures of economic success, so I'm not sure the association of smarter with better material circumstances is false, if that's what you're implying. If you mean the association with happiness, then yes that's probably false.
- impalallama 4y agothe question tends to break really fast if you try to define almost anything in it. Intelligence is already notoriously difficulty to quantify, now compare that to something as ephemeral as happiness. what are you going to do? compare someone IQ against some self reported metric of happiness?
- nudpiedo 4y agoBecause they are a group of people who have a set of common problems often not addressed as they are believed to do better in life due stereotypes. In reality many perform poorly in academic results and abandon any studies, the largest majority suffer from bullying and most of them struggle in getting a successful life by social standards. Why aren’t smart people and their problems studied as a particular subset of society?