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It doesn't matter what I think, it's blatantly and obviously false. Ted Kazcynski, Charles Manson, Bernie Madoff, Jeffrey Epstein are convicted criminals whose
by sofixa 2y ago
It 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.”).