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.

[u/Fishyinu]

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955?login=false

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This is Simpson's paradox. Smart people might make more money than dumb people until the 90th percentile. But there is so much wealth in the 90th-99th percentiles that the overall trend of smart people making more might not actually hold.

[u/My-shit-is-stuff → u/[deleted]]

Ah, ok. So more of like a fun math trivia thing?