Well, I personally think the current editorialized title here ("When rational thinking is correlated with intelligence the correlation is modest") is off, but t

Well, I personally think the current editorialized title here ("When rational thinking is correlated with intelligence the correlation is modest") is off, but the title of the article itself ("Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss") is more accurate. The article essentially points more to the disparity between IQ test results and rational thinking ability, which is more a critique of IQ testing. However, the title here points to a disparity between intelligence and rational thinking capacity, which is certainly counterintuitive. So, those who didn't note the difference in titles and/or went in with the idea that the title here was the author's premise may have taken issue with the article. The title editorializing was likely purposeful in that many people dismiss IQ tests out-of-hand, so the notion that IQ tests aren't predictive of rational-decision making capacity would have been far less remarkable or click-worthy.