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We geniuses need our alone time
« on: March 22, 2016, 04:19:01 PM »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/18/why-smart-people-are-better-off-with-fewer-friends/

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First, they find that people who live in more densely populated areas tend to report less satisfaction with their life overall. "The higher the population density of the immediate environment, the less happy" the survey respondents said they were. Second, they find that the more social interactions with close friends a person has, the greater their self-reported happiness.

But there was one big exception. For more intelligent people, these correlations were diminished or even reversed.

"The effect of population density on life satisfaction was therefore more than twice as large for low-IQ individuals than for high-IQ individuals," they found. And "more intelligent individuals were actually less satisfied with life if they socialized with their friends more frequently."

This explains so very much about my reclusiveness. [smug emoticon]
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2016, 04:25:41 PM »
I agree with this study.  =D
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2016, 04:33:33 PM »
Alternate hypothesis: Stupidity is contagious.
A plan is just a list of things that doesn't happen.
Is defenestration possible through the overton window?

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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2016, 04:49:54 PM »
Alternate hypothesis: Stupidity is contagious.

Truth. The bigger the group, the lower the aggregate intelligence.
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2016, 04:55:15 PM »
We need to purge about 70% of our members. :police: >:D [popcorn] =D
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2016, 08:01:47 PM »
Alternate hypothesis: you socialize less because your B.O. has reached such epic proportions that you have fewer opportunities to socialize.  >:D =D
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2016, 08:27:49 PM »
Somebody once told me that bright people join Mensa.  Very bright people join Mensa Squared. But very, very bright people join the Rotarians, the church Glee Club, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Terry, 230RN... IQ about a third of that.
WHATEVER YOUR DEFINITION OF "INFRINGE " IS, YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING IT.

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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2016, 11:57:13 PM »
Smartest Person I Ever Knew (My Father), had this as his front door mat:


Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.


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Take women and children and bed them down.
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2016, 07:29:58 AM »
Smartest Person I Ever Knew (My Father), had this as his front door mat:




And this really is our front door mat...



(...just not our front door.)
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2016, 07:39:04 AM »
I've got one of these:


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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2016, 09:06:10 AM »
And this really is our front door mat...



(...just not our front door.)
So it is your front door, but not your front door?  How many front doors do you have?
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2016, 09:17:04 AM »
So it is your front door, but not your front door?  How many front doors do you have?



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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2016, 10:40:39 AM »
I used to keep this one at the front door to my office:

"I'm a foolish old man that has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop."

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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2016, 12:15:38 PM »
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tempting

yes it is, especially in our neighborhood.
In thy presence is fulness of joy.
At thy right hand pleasures for evermore.

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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2016, 01:16:12 PM »
I'm tempted to get this one...

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.


Bring me my Broadsword and a clear understanding.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2016, 07:47:06 PM »
We need to purge about 70% of our members. :police: >:D [popcorn] =D

I'm gonna miss some of you guys!   :P

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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2016, 11:02:02 PM »
Smartest guy I know, well his welcome mat says, Welcome.

If you know him, bring scotch.

He is an extreme introvert that battles depression, but he holds his friends very close.
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2016, 11:40:21 PM »
So it is your front door, but not your front door?  How many front doors do you have?

Yeah.  Looking at that tonight with "fresher" eyes, I see the poor construction.  The mat at our front door is just like that map.  That is NOT a picture of our front door.

Happy now?   :P
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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2016, 11:43:52 PM »



<bemused>
I must have 100 pictures with my feet in them.  You'd think some computin' engine guru could write a foot-recognition program to automatically crop them out.
</bemused>



The warrant one: LIKE.  :rofl:

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Re: We geniuses need our alone time
« Reply #20 on: March 26, 2016, 02:26:31 PM »
Clarey has a book called the curse of a high IQ...it's...amusing, but deals mainly with the +2-3 sigma group.
His comparison (valid) is average : +2-3 sigma :: Forrest Gump : average.
His points are really not valid at the 4-6 sigma range, as there really isn't a valid syllogism.
Average : +4-6 sigma :: IQ of 10-40 : average.
Since that low level isn't really "person" any more, the comparison in terms of describing the interaction breaks down.

Everyone I know in the 4-6 range I think is LESS frustrated with average people, as they are smart enough to realize -everyone- has somethi to add, and then just interacts as appropriate, and puts the other 80-90% of clock cycles to something else. 

Speaking personally, I find +2 sigma folks -more- frustrating than average...as +2's are neck deep in the bad part of the dunning-Kruger effect, while average folks and 3-4 and more sigma have realized what they don't know.
Also, why be an introvert, learning super fast means the more different people you interact with, the more you can learn.