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0 pointslostmsu3y ago0 comments

There's no indication that smart parents don't get their child to cry less than dumb parents either shorter or longer term, so the entire argument is baseless.

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donkeyd3y ago

How about an indication of the opposite? Since you stated that smart people "are better at answering all of the questions you listed".

You seem to have completely missed the point of my comment though, which is that the questions are not well-defined and therefore it's not obvious what 'the better answer' is.

lostmsuOP3y ago

I don't see then how that can explain why smarter people are less happy.

In fact if you believe this article, unhappiest people have avg. IQ. Low and high IQ are happy, with >120 being the happiest: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-19659985

donkeyd3y ago

The article doesn't state that they are less happy. It just states that they are not happier as in, they are probably pretty much equally as happy as other people.

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donkeyd3y ago

How about an indication of the opposite? Since you stated that smart people "are better at answering all of the questions you listed".

You seem to have completely missed the point of my comment though, which is that the questions are not well-defined and therefore it's not obvious what 'the better answer' is.

lostmsuOP3y ago

I don't see then how that can explain why smarter people are less happy.

In fact if you believe this article, unhappiest people have avg. IQ. Low and high IQ are happy, with >120 being the happiest: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-19659985

donkeyd3y ago

The article doesn't state that they are less happy. It just states that they are not happier as in, they are probably pretty much equally as happy as other people.

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