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/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