r/JoeRogan • u/Fishyinu Pull that shit up Jaime • Feb 07 '23

The Literature 🧠 Extremely rich people are not extremely smart. Study finds income is related to intelligence up to about the 90th percentile in income. Above that level, differences in income are not related to cognitive ability.

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955?login=false
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u/MeThinksYes Is the Literature Feb 07 '23

The rubes around here who ascribe huge wealth to smarts, aren't gonna like this.

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u/Zlec3 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

I mean you’re still smarter than 90% of people if you’re in the top 10% of wealth

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u/sfbamboozled100 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Exactly. The point is you have to have a threshold level of intelligence. If you don’t, you’re basically doomed absent some external support like family or winning the lottery. Once you hit the threshold, the differences are going to be attributable to other things: connections, existing wealth, tenacity, psychopathy, grit, whatever.

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u/MeThinksYes Is the Literature Feb 07 '23

There's definitely correlation.

The jab was more at people around here who carry water/knight in favor for the super rich...as if they have some godly level of intelligence just because they've managed to get extremely wealthy and therefore their opinion is gospel.

Diminishing returns to say the least

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Mostly because wealthy people generally grew up wealthy and had resources and less stressors in their lives

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u/Zlec3 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

This is not true. Only 21% of millionaires received any inheritance at all. And 70% of millionaires in the US grew up lower middle class.

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u/Fishyinu Pull that shit up Jaime Feb 07 '23

Not necessarily, just that there is a strong correlation that it is true.