The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.
The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.