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Re:A phone the FBI sold to criminals by swiley on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:48PM (#27774574)
Intelligence != capable of socializing. You need both in order to be paid well. I think the belife that criminals are uninteligent is due to 1) Intelligent people recognizing that crime rarely has a positive expected profit

2) There might be more unintelligent people than people who are both intelligent and so incapable of socializing that they can't find work.

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Re:A phone the FBI sold to criminals by sudosysgen on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:05PM (#27774853)
As long as you're not at the bottom 2-3 rungs crime can have a huge positive expected profit. It's the lifestyle that sucks which is why intelligent people don't get into it unless something in their life makes it a compelling option.
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Re:A phone the FBI sold to criminals by inetknght on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:10PM (#27774939)
It's amazing to me to see how many people run out the tropes that intelligent people don't commit crimes. More accurately, intelligent people don't get caught committing crimes.
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Re:A phone the FBI sold to criminals by sodality2 on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:43PM (#27775407)
Aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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