Re:Does Super-High IQ= Super-Low Common Sense?
by tokenadult on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:55PM
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This depends crucially on the definition of "common sense." What is demonstrated by current research is that the form of cognition known as "rationality" is NOT well correlated with IQ (usually called "intelligence" by psychologists).
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stanovich1
The recent book-length work on this subject
http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog...
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001238...
provides abundant references to peer-reviewed experimental literature on this distinction.