This was posted by someone on SG and I suspect was taken from Professor Cipolla’s thesis on Human stupidity.
It’s an interesting graph because it measures the ethical component to a degree that IQ tests simply don’t.
I think on this basis it’s much easier to determine where you fall if you are at least honest with yourself.
As a general rule, my actions almost never result in negative effects for others, though I am not opposed to causing negative effects to those who deserve it, go looking for them, or try to cause me or mine some.
Any negative effects caused to myself are generally a consciously chosen risk-benefit calculation where I am quite resilient to high-risk endeavours, and in any case, mostly that works out in my favour.
A lot of people I know, however, while thinking quite highly of themselves, do not in fact create better conditions for their friends, families or strangers, and often, in their blissful idiocy, don’t even realise that their selfishness, which is usually the main cause of things, doesn’t do them any favours either.
A LOT of people are in fact quite stupid by this metric, and often quite profoundly so, which also means they are incapable of realising it, their fantasy life being superimposed on the reality of their existence.
An alternative measure of intelligence
This was posted by someone on SG and I suspect was taken from Professor Cipolla’s thesis on Human stupidity.
It’s an interesting graph because it measures the ethical component to a degree that IQ tests simply don’t.
I think on this basis it’s much easier to determine where you fall if you are at least honest with yourself.
As a general rule, my actions almost never result in negative effects for others, though I am not opposed to causing negative effects to those who deserve it, go looking for them, or try to cause me or mine some.
Any negative effects caused to myself are generally a consciously chosen risk-benefit calculation where I am quite resilient to high-risk endeavours, and in any case, mostly that works out in my favour.
A lot of people I know, however, while thinking quite highly of themselves, do not in fact create better conditions for their friends, families or strangers, and often, in their blissful idiocy, don’t even realise that their selfishness, which is usually the main cause of things, doesn’t do them any favours either.
A LOT of people are in fact quite stupid by this metric, and often quite profoundly so, which also means they are incapable of realising it, their fantasy life being superimposed on the reality of their existence.
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