The methodology is about as sound as a sociology study ever gets - respectable n and in a domain where "only college students" is probably OK. The conclusion i

The methodology is about as sound as a sociology study ever gets - respectable n and in a domain where "only college students" is probably OK. The conclusion is pretty clear: intelligent people are better at discerning intelligence in others. The effect is weak but statistically significant. This result lines up with mine (and others) experience, which is that it is significantly harder to bullshit a smart person than a stupid person about your own intelligence. It's fair game to discuss anecdotes in the context of a study like this because human beings don't understand the world in CIs and z-scores, they understand it in narratives. > That is close to tautological, not some profound discovery about social perception. ;-) So is my statement above. It would have been a profound discovery if the study found out that intelligent people were no more accurate at judging others' intelligence than anyone else.