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> well supported scientific explanations that are politically unpleasant—you need to pay more for energy, criminals are low IQ and low impulse control Do you m
by sofixa 2y ago
> well supported scientific explanations that are politically unpleasant—you need to pay more for energy, criminals are low IQ and low impulse control
Do you mean to say that low IQ and low impulse control are the "well supported scientific" explanation for crime?
That seems wildly improbable. Ted Kaczynski being the obvious counterexample, but there are many other premeditated criminals who are intelligent. And that's only if we narrow "crime" to mean violent crime against people/things, but if we add in financial crimes/fraud/etc. this becomes even more easily disprovable.
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
- sofixa 2y agoIt doesn't matter what I think, it's blatantly and obviously false. Ted Kazcynski, Charles Manson, Bernie Madoff, Jeffrey Epstein are convicted criminals whose crimes cannot be blamed on IQ nor impulse control.
- rayiner 2y agoBoth things are true: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2021/10/12/why_do_geniuses_commit_crime_797186.html https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2021/10/12/why_do_geni... (“Crime is typically thought of as a low-IQ activity, and most scientific research bears this out. Lower levels of intelligence are broadly associated with increases in criminal behavior, though the exact reasons for this correlation are heavily debated. Curiously, however, this trend doesn't seem to hold for individuals whose IQ scores place them in the top 0.1% of intelligence.”).