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• Post #2478513

  I’d say less than 10%? The vast majority of my problems result from my own irrational actions and poor choices. I’ve had problematic idiots in professional and social settings but again the main issue in those cases are largely because I cannot stand willfully ignorant people. If I were more chill about morons, it’d be 0%. But that’s just me personally and I’m usually an outlier. This is kind of a hot take, but I don’t think we should try to measure and assess IQ and EQ at all. The IQ test in...

• Post #2478030

  Realistically, the world is too complex and too large to even remotely be able to predict the outcome of making everyone 50% smarter. My best guess though is that it wouldn’t change much. If everyone is smarter, no one is smarter. High intelligence doesn’t automatically mean Mr. Spock. I used to be involved with Mensa and many of the people I met were nuts, lacked critical thinking skills, or were so full of themselves for testing well they were blind to external information. I myself am highl...