The inability to recognise how an intelligence trait that correlates with pattern recognition might have an effect on being able to predict the long-term outcom

The inability to recognise how an intelligence trait that correlates with pattern recognition might have an effect on being able to predict the long-term outcome of one's actions and provides the ability to work well with others in a very large group, which a civilization is, and instead defaulting to an ad absurdum argument shows where you might fall on the IQ spectrum.