Popular dumb shallow people, unpopular smart geeks.
You mistake what people signal with their inherent intelligence. Bill O’Reilly doesn’t behave as a geek. That change that he’s smart.
It’s like the mistake of thinking that being good at chess is about intelligence.
Unfortunately at the moment I don’t find the link to the studies about IQ and social skill, but I think we had previous LW discussions towards IQ positively correlating with social abilities in average society being well established.
I am not 100% sure what is a SAT is but if it is like a normal school test—memorize stuff like historical dates of battles, barf it back
It’s not about having memorized information. SAT tests are generally known to be a good proxy for IQ.
You mistake what people signal with their inherent intelligence. Bill O’Reilly doesn’t behave as a geek. That change that he’s smart. It’s like the mistake of thinking that being good at chess is about intelligence.
Unfortunately at the moment I don’t find the link to the studies about IQ and social skill, but I think we had previous LW discussions towards IQ positively correlating with social abilities in average society being well established.
It’s not about having memorized information. SAT tests are generally known to be a good proxy for IQ.