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That's simply not true. Some charismatic people have a high IQ and some don't. Silvio Berlusconi is certainly charismatic, but he doesn't seem particularly inte
by mixmax 17y ago
That's simply not true. Some charismatic people have a high IQ and some don't. Silvio Berlusconi is certainly charismatic, but he doesn't seem particularly intelligent. The same goes for people such as Simon Cowell and Richard Branson.
Charisma and IQ, while probably somewhat correlated are totally different character traits.
- amichail 17y agoAt least my proposal would make low IQ charismatic people a lot less convincing. High IQ charismatic people may not be all that bad. They would at least more clearly see the consequences of their actions.
- mixmax 17y agoMy point is that a high IQ doesn't give you extraordinary powers of clarity regarding choices and consequences in life, whether these choices are for yourself or others. A good case study is Bobby Fischer, one of the best Chess Grandmasters of all time, generally considered a genius and certainly a very high IQ. He was involved with the sect "the church of God", came out with some extremely unfortunate hate comments about Jews that backfired on him, and died in Iceland as a refugee from the US tax system. I think you're putting IQ on a piedestal where it doesn't belong.