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I'm inclined to believe that lack of common sense is an exception and not the rule among geniuses, despite popular beliefs, but I could be wrong. Care to offer

• tokenadult 17y ago
  This depends crucially on the definition of "common sense." What is demonstrated by current research is that the form of cognition known as "rationality" is NOT well correlated with IQ (usually called "intelligence" by psychologists). http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stanovich1 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stanovich1 The recent book-length work on this subject http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psychology/dp/030012385X http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog... http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300123852 http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001238... provides abundant references to peer-reviewed experimental literature on this distinction.