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Robo said:
An interesting read.............
Probably AI generated.

Why Intelligent People Prefer To Socialize Less
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Why are you being so cynical about it's origin? The byline suggests it is by Brianna Wiest, and the publication date is 9 Aug 2016, a little before the recent emergence of AI tools for content generation.

Edit: an interesting read, but there is an unfortunate point where it creates a link suggesting that more intelligent people are superior humans. It sounded rather elitist.
 
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Thanks, didn't see the date.
I was probably a bit cynical given the amount of advertising on the site.
Looked like that was it's main purpose, to draw traffic to adverts.
I agree, the tone was a bit off.........
 
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One thing we can say (and the red pen came out whenever I saw that in a student essay) is that if you are more intelligent, you are probably better at finding reasons to be selfish. It might be more credible if it actually cited sources for its assertions.
 
dougfitz said:
The byline suggests it is by Brianna Wiest, and the publication date is 9 Aug 2016
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The article sounds like the usual fairly free interpretation of a boring scientific study that is so far away from its original that the actual content and result of the study is barely recognisable. The writer may not even have read the study itself but relied on other news article which were based on a PR release - usually designed and worded to catch some attention.

The source for this lifestyle article is obviously a study published in February 2016 in the BJP. The authors are Li and Kanazawa. The title is: "Country roads, take me home… to my friends: "How intelligence, population density, and friendship affect modern happiness."

A quote from the introduction:

More importantly, the main associations of life satisfaction with population density and socialization with friends significantly interact with intelligence, and, in the latter case, the main association is reversed among the extremely intelligent. More intelligent individuals experience lower life satisfaction with more frequent socialization with friends.​

The data for this study are taken from a US observation of the life and health of some 15,000 students aged 18-28 called National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).

Google the names of the two authors or the full title of their 2016 publication of their results and/or "Savanna theory of happiness" to find more articles about the study and about the study itself which is available online.

PS: I guess you could as well title a similar article, were you so inclined, as: "Geeks don't have as many friends as others."
 
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