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They would simply be averaged out by people elected to public office, a place where a super-intelligent human would never be welcomed.
by coldcode 12y ago
They would simply be averaged out by people elected to public office, a place where a super-intelligent human would never be welcomed.
- bhouston 12y agoSome US presidents have been really intelligent. It is easy to knock them, but recent presidents Bush Sr., Clinton and Obama are all extremely bright. Romney also is really smart given his work in the financial industry. Bush Jr., who wasn't that bright, is more of an exception than the rule I think for US presidents.
- crazypyro 12y agoI am almost 100% certain Bush Jr. would be considered bright when compared with any cross section of say 1000 US citizens. People try to compare him with previous presidents, but it is all speculative. Even though I disagree with his presidential policies, I find the baseless, tiring insults on his intelligence to be more grating.
- socialist_coder 12y agoOnly because the general public is so... average (pretty dumb). If the average person had a 10 or 15 point higher IQ, I think people would put a higher value on intelligence in their elected officials. I think that the world would look a lot different (better) if the average intelligence was raised by this much. So many things would change. A dawn of a new era.
- peterfirefly 12y agoIsrael sounds like it would be a natural experiment for that hypothesis. I hope you are right but it doesn't quite look that way.