The reason why Lynn wrote his book on race and psychopathy was that IQ could only explain half the imprisonment rates. The other half could be explained by psychopathy, he found.
Also, the correlation between IQ and psychopathy is very low, within races.
I've always imagined that one affect of having higher g is that one can sort of "imagine" consequences of events much more clearly and thus are more easily able to overcome their base instincts. If I KNOW and understand to my core that overeating regularly will cause me to gain weight, and I KNOW to my core that said weight gain will negatively affect me physically and mentally, I think it stands to reason that I would be less likely to engage in frequent overeating than someone who can only conjure up a vague image of him/herself getting overweight and the consequences of it.
Similarly, I think the same could be said for violence. I don't have any direct evidence for this, so I'd put this on the "4/7 confidence test" that you mentioned in a past article haha
Relatedly, I find individual differences in visualisation ability fascinating. I want to know how well correlated not being able to visualise an apple is with g. Is this just a different modality of thought, cultural corruption, or genuine stupidity?
"Being stupid means being impulsive..." Not quite. You can be brilliant and still be a slave to brute impulses.
The correlation may not be directly causal. Violence and intelligence are both male reproductive strategies. Genomes without one strategy will tend to prefer the other.
It's very obvious that there should be an association, for precisely the reason that low intelligence correlates with poor impulse control and high time preference.
Of course, that's just for violent crime. The same association likely holds for essentially every other kind of impulsive crime, e.g. petty theft, burglary, etc.
When it comes to violence per se, it could be interesting to compare sanctioned vs unsanctioned violence. I suspect highly intelligent people are just as capable of violence when it's legal, e.g. in military contexts, and far more effective at it.
Yeah, interesting that you occasionally hear stories of low-ranking soldiers doing bizarre shit like shooting innocent civilians or randomly shooting livestock. I'm not sure you'd see as strong a correlation there. Maybe more associated with dark triad?
Well, but that could be perfectly consistent. First, shooting civilians is considered a war crime, criminal by definition. Second, your typical tip-of-the-spear trigger-pullers aren't selected for high IQ. So it could be exactly the same phenomenon as seen with street crime.
Now, your officer class IS selected for high(-er) IQ, and in that case I'd expect there would be a correlation between high scores for antisocial personality traits and the likelihood that they would encourage their men to do terrible things.
Some people with high intelligence are impulsive as well, anyone with add, or people on the autism spectrum, tend to generally disregard rules especially when younger.(or older like buying twitter on a whim)
The reason why Lynn wrote his book on race and psychopathy was that IQ could only explain half the imprisonment rates. The other half could be explained by psychopathy, he found.
Also, the correlation between IQ and psychopathy is very low, within races.
I've always imagined that one affect of having higher g is that one can sort of "imagine" consequences of events much more clearly and thus are more easily able to overcome their base instincts. If I KNOW and understand to my core that overeating regularly will cause me to gain weight, and I KNOW to my core that said weight gain will negatively affect me physically and mentally, I think it stands to reason that I would be less likely to engage in frequent overeating than someone who can only conjure up a vague image of him/herself getting overweight and the consequences of it.
Similarly, I think the same could be said for violence. I don't have any direct evidence for this, so I'd put this on the "4/7 confidence test" that you mentioned in a past article haha
Relatedly, I find individual differences in visualisation ability fascinating. I want to know how well correlated not being able to visualise an apple is with g. Is this just a different modality of thought, cultural corruption, or genuine stupidity?
"Being stupid means being impulsive..." Not quite. You can be brilliant and still be a slave to brute impulses.
The correlation may not be directly causal. Violence and intelligence are both male reproductive strategies. Genomes without one strategy will tend to prefer the other.
It's very obvious that there should be an association, for precisely the reason that low intelligence correlates with poor impulse control and high time preference.
Of course, that's just for violent crime. The same association likely holds for essentially every other kind of impulsive crime, e.g. petty theft, burglary, etc.
When it comes to violence per se, it could be interesting to compare sanctioned vs unsanctioned violence. I suspect highly intelligent people are just as capable of violence when it's legal, e.g. in military contexts, and far more effective at it.
Yeah, interesting that you occasionally hear stories of low-ranking soldiers doing bizarre shit like shooting innocent civilians or randomly shooting livestock. I'm not sure you'd see as strong a correlation there. Maybe more associated with dark triad?
Well, but that could be perfectly consistent. First, shooting civilians is considered a war crime, criminal by definition. Second, your typical tip-of-the-spear trigger-pullers aren't selected for high IQ. So it could be exactly the same phenomenon as seen with street crime.
Now, your officer class IS selected for high(-er) IQ, and in that case I'd expect there would be a correlation between high scores for antisocial personality traits and the likelihood that they would encourage their men to do terrible things.
Some people with high intelligence are impulsive as well, anyone with add, or people on the autism spectrum, tend to generally disregard rules especially when younger.(or older like buying twitter on a whim)
High intelligence also often correlates with novelty-seeking behaviour, hence the correlation with high-risk behaviours such as recreational drug use.