Still following the post above on intelligence and beauty and the article published in The Economist about the danger of having too many intelligent people check in the link below a recent paper just published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology by researchers from Canada:
"Navigating social systems efficiently is critical to our species. Humans appear endowed with a cognitive system that has formed to meet the unique challenges that emerge for highly social species. Bullshitting, communication characterised by an intent to be convincing or impressive without concern for truth, is ubiquitous within human societies. Across two studies (N = 1,017), we assess participants’ ability to produce satisfying and seemingly accurate bullshit as an honest signal of their intelligence. We find that bullshit ability is associated with an individual’s intelligence and individuals capable of producing more satisfying bullshit are judged by second-hand observers to be more intelligent. We interpret these results as adding evidence for intelligence being geared towards the navigation of social systems. The ability to produce satisfying bullshit may serve to assist individuals in negotiating their social world, both as an energetically efficient strategy for impressing others and as an honest signal of intelligence"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14747049211000317
PS - One of these days someone will carry out a study that will show that laziness is also a sign of intelligence, not least because one year ago, an Italian named Guido Tonelli gave an interesting interview where he revealed that when he was young he was undecided between Architecture and Physics and chose the second just for the sake of laziness:
"Architecture was five years and 30 exams,
Physics four years and 19 exams. I decided to go to Physics because I didn't want to study and work too
much" The bizarre choice,
however, ended up giving Humanity a very talented scientist who is associated
with one of the most important discoveries in the field of physics, the
discovery of the Higgs boson.
