| Should be self-explanatory, but I'll elaborate in case it isn't. Is intelligence, in-and-of-itself, overrated? Societally, being "smart" is supposedly valued, but if a person doesn't have other supposed positive attributes to go along with it, does it really help one as much as people think? Personally, I think it's a double-edged sword. Certainly has the possibility to be beneficial, but it's hardly guaranteed. When I was younger, I was admittedly arrogant about my intellect, but the older I get, the more I doubt how smart I actually am. Cognitively, that is. My emotional intelligence has always been a mixed bag (high capacity for empathy, but shit at dealing with emotions). Same with social skills, tbh. I'm not inept, I can get along with most people, and have non-cringe interactions, but getting close/intimate with people has been a struggle. Given all that, even if those around me who genuinely consider me rather intelligent are correct, it doesn't seem like that one attribute amounts to much, without complementary ones to go along with it. And that doesn't even delve into the mindfucks one can get oneself into with at least an average level of intelligence. InB4 trolled. |
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| Bugs have survived a half-billion years and they barely have brains. It's better to be a low IQ retard that has good people skills than a 100+ Autist. As Idiocracy pointed out they are gonna breed while smart people spend all their time worrying about the best time to have kids. Also always good to see Shiznat. |
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| emotional intelligence is better like being street smart rather than book smart |
| It's totally underrated, like try to do math or programmer pick up lines at a party, it won't work. |
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| As an incredibly intelligent Onii-chan, a part of me wants to say that intelligence is to an extent overrated. Most of us do not live in a meritocracy, but in a world that runs on nepotism. Being competent is not a recipe of success or social advancement. That being said, intelligence is not irrelevant here. For example, if you want to pursue a doctorate in some field being intelligent in a way that means you can grasp the related concepts of those fields quicker and to a much greater depth than most of your peers, then having high intelligence is invaluable. Intelligence is a multi-faceted thing, to be clear. Even if I accept Elon Musk as being intelligent enough in engineering to go to Stanford, the man has the cultural sophistication, the self-awareness, and the maturity of a prepubescent boy. One does not simply accuse a rescue diver of being a pedophile simply for not wanting to use a submersible in a delicate cave rescue operation. To me, being self-aware and not full of hubris IS intelligence, just a different sort than how well one understands advanced mathematics. What sort of in-depth discussions can you have with someone well-versed in engineering principles, but so lacking in philosophy or critical thought, lacking in curiosity in any other subjects? I think our culture here places too much emphasis on fields with tangible outputs, such as engineering, at the expense of devaluing the humanities. So I should say "I find intelligence with regards to adeptness in the hard sciences to be overrated". I wish people were more well-rounded these days, then they could be happier and exploit each other less. Personally, I think it's a double-edged sword. I mean, anything can sound bad if you lack all other qualities. This is not necessarily a drawback of being intelligent as much as a drawback to you lacking whatever it is that you lack. Getting closer to others has been a struggle for everyone, and you cannot rely solely on your giftedness in some field or your quick wit to sustain any long-term, meaningful relationships anymore than you can bank on personal beauty. *Swishes hair* I do want to say not to blame your intelligence or lack thereof on the absence of close social relationships. I think this is a terrible self-defeating and essentialist argument that "justifies" your loneliness. Many young people, especially young men, fall back on illusions of superiority to make their unintended and unwanted social isolation to be less pathetic. Even if you are in fact superior, you can still probably make friends. |
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| Intelligence is the ability to solve problems and improve life, that can't be overrated. |
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| No it is not because humans need intelligence to function in human society. |
| its overrated i agree with all opinons above |
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| Looks takes you further in life than intelligence ever could. Reminds me of the story of the very iq inkwell. |
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| In some ways yes, and others, not so much. Generally speaking, intelligence is important because life requires a plethora of problem solving skills and knowledge. However, we often assume some forms of intelligence are more important than others. We often assume people who lack social skills must also be academically challenged, when that isn't true, in fact they're often more well educated than the average person. What constitutes intelligence may vary from person to person. Be it emotional intelligence, problem solving, social intelligence, mathematic or scientific intelligence, or simply being well educated and versed on a variety of subjects. We should always aim to take care of our minds, but we often assume an objective idea of what intelligence is or what we aught to be intelligent about, not realizing people may have different educational or career goals than ourselves. |
| Life is more pleasure than pain. You have meaning so long as you choose to. Everything matters to someone. |
| Who needs intelligence when AI is replacing all natural intelligence? |
| Teamwork can often do better than individual effort, even if that individual is intelligent. Intelligence isn't (or shouldn't be) overrated because there are lot of things that a person could be intelligent at (sports, computers, art, etc..) Complex and/or complicated stuff often requires intelligence/knowledge from intelligent people in order to work, or be performed. Like semiconductors. On an individual/personal level, intelligence theoretically is always valuable because it's just useful, whether or not it's popular (I guess.) Of course, if you're a king or something, the people who will help you stay in power might not value your intelligence as a scientist but rather you're persona/charisma as the guy who can dance very well on the dance floor. So, 'intelligence' (in something) is obviously not always useful in everything, but intelligence can only be 'good,' no? |
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| That depends if your definition of intelligence also includes emotional intelligence and if you mean intelligence in general or only high intelligence. |
| It is. Hard work is so much more valuable and needed in the world. I have a tested high IQ and no one cares, it's more of a burden mentally. There really is bliss in ignorance, I developed depression at 10 it's no fun. |
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It is. Hard work is so much more valuable and needed in the world.
I have a tested high IQ and no one cares, it's more of a burden mentally.
There really is bliss in ignorance, I developed depression at 10 it's no fun.
I have a tested high IQ and no one cares, it's more of a burden mentally.
There really is bliss in ignorance, I developed depression at 10 it's no fun.
| @Romaki I'm sorry but hard work is a meme. Throughout history people have taken stuff that people who work hard have made. Even when you consider people that did succeed by hard work the most important thing was really being in the right place at the right time. |
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| Yeah the ppl who invent, maintain, and improve almost everything involving technology or medicine are totally overrated lol. Those airplanes you fly on and medications you take!? phhhbt totally can be done by anyone! 😂 If you get to look at high levels of IT or engineering you realize that intelligence is extremely valuable to the modern world. We have enough smart people in the world for that, but it also shows you how fragile everything is when its limited to such a small % of the world population. I'm sure its the same with the chemistry field or w/e. Although I would also say that the more a person knows they will also realize the less they know. And it's more than intelligence that is needed; it is just one single factor however critical. Anyways, to prove why everyone who voted yes is lying, consider if they had to choose between living in their choice of the top ten high IQ countries, or their choice of the ten lowest IQ countries: they would pick the high IQ countries every single time lmao. Some low IQ countries are experiencing horrific wars that nobody knows about since they're the wrong color ppl for Western media, and they all have extremely high rates of poverty with significant populations living on dollars a day.. sometimes less a dollar! So, suddenly, intelligence becomes very important and not so overrated when it will affect everyone around you lol. "B-but I'd totally pick Liberia over Japan! A-and it has nothing to do with intelligence!!" 😂😂😂  |
Shishio-kunMar 29, 9:13 PM
| Intelligence can of course be useful to the individual, but there are two primary qualifiers. Firstly, there are shades of intelligence, both David Hilbert and James Joyce are geniuses and of an undeniably great level of intelligence, but Hilbert was a poor writer and Joyce a poor mathematician. Then there is the case that everything is useless if left unused. There are swathes of posters on MAL who claim crushing burdens of extraordinary intelligence and insight, but all they have to show for it is having languished: reduced to writing essays on the casual discussion board (not to say every essay poster is as such, but you are surely on notice). |
| "For every person that dreams up the electric lightbulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb." -that one guy from spy kids or whatever the fuck that movie was." No but seriously, anyone who says intelligence isn't important is coping out of their minds. If everyone was as dumb as a rock we would have never advanced beyond a hunter-gatherer level. I for one quite enjoy having a decent standard of living. |
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| How can intelligence be over rated? If you need intelligence to survive in modern society? Unfortunately, many people lack in good intelligence, which is why they end of prematurely dying, severely injured, locked up in jail, etc. |
| EQ is most important things for every human since IQ itself mostly carried by genetic aspect so thats why mostly down syndrome with iq around 50 hardly to live normally. Although ur iq so high like beyond 150+ but its so useless if u have low emotional power also with people who have under 100 IQ dont be discouraged with urself due to u can unlock ur true potential even ur result can beyond people with IQ over 150 due to EQ itself unaffected by genetic but mostly determined by ur state when dealing toward ur current circumstance I never say if IQ its not necessarry but i just wanna say mostly important in this world is how to influence other people where its aspect fundamentally decided by EQ value. Take sample like WW2 rocket when people talk about atomic bomb mostly common question would be asked more likely which one nation used atomic bomb ? Whos pilot behind bomber plane ? Then there are spesific quostion like Whos legalized manhattan project ? Whos leader while researched its project ? From here u all know that mostly important subject are government then followed by researchers and scientist. So literally scientist and researchers so useless if they didnt got authority from people with dominantly EQ like government senate etc even if they force themselves easily can be sued or charged due to arbitary action In other case take example like V2 Rocket whos legalized V2 rocket project ? Whos leader while rraserched its project ? Of course the answer always be government first then afterwards followed by researchers and scientist. Once again from here we all know people have authority like government always control anything in every aspect despite they arent master for certain spefisic aspect. Not only IRL it also happen in anime like Steins Gate people who have the most contribution are Kurisu and Daru but why Okabe who became most popular there due to he always ensure and affect other people around them to examine any odds around him despite hes not master scientist or programmer like kurisu and daru Not only that shit happen scientist also can be occured on orochimaru and shou tucker although both of them true genius one but their reasearch disbanded by authorized government due to confrotation with government policy regardless how big their contribution on knowledge so their IQ become useless since can be adapted correctly as current circumstance Dakara koso kojinkan o hikakushitara, kono sekai wa hontouni chiisai dake da since mostly civilization from time to time always affected by people with high EQ where every specialist with high IQ like scientist, medic, etc work and serve to goverment under its authorization which the leaders are beloved, believed, trusted by his people despite master of none like this one |
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| Of course, intelligence is not over rated. Especially now with AI now exploding. Just consider that. |
| What is often meant by the phrase "intelligence is overrated" is not that intelligence does not matter, but rather that certain other things are also important. For instance, you would probably prefer being around a kind person with average intelligence than an evil genius bent on destroying your life. Another example: It's not uncommon for rich people to be far less intelligent than scientists and the like. |
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| If intelligence is over rated, then why do people care so much about it? |
| I don’t think it’s overrated as much as features like courage or kindness are underrated. Combine them all in a person and you have something greater than the sum of its parts. |
| A lot of dumb people tend to commit crimes while the average smart guy knows better. |
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A lot of dumb people tend to commit crimes while the average smart guy knows better.
| @Spunkert dumb emotionally aka lacking emotional regulation or low eq dark triad like psychopathy and anti social personality disorder is link with crimes for a reason and this people are impulsive lacking emotional regulation lots of ceos for example are high in psychopathy and they are high in iq but low in eq |
| The academic intelligence? Definitely. |
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| The academic intelligence? Definitely. There are many smart people out there lacking basic daily life knowledge. |
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| sort of depends. They are different types of intelligence imo. Technical, being good with money, etc. There are plenty of examples of smart employees waging for a businessmen with no education. |
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| intelligence and adaptive fxning are both rather important to a degree, but most people pass the threshold of importance for both |
| A bit of enlightenment for y'all: Herrnstein & Murray, Arthur Jensen, Stephen Gould, James Flynn, Richard Nisbett. They sometimes have opposite views, so read and analyze them all. |
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