People With Fewer Friends Tend To Be Intelligent: Study
Why smart people tend to be loners: Having lots of friends and socialising makes intelligent people miserable
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There is an archetype or trope in fiction and mass media called Intelligence Equals Isolation - when a person or character is "very smart," but often suffer for it by being unable to relate to the worries and personalities of their friends, relatives or anybody.
Now, a new real-world study may be able to back up this fictional archetype. Evolutionary psychologists from Singapore and London have found that intelligent people find it difficult to engage in social interaction even with their close friends.
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Kanazawa and Li hypothesize that the lifestyle of our hunter-gatherer ancestors forms the foundation of what makes modern humans happy now.
They applied a concept called "the savanna theory of happiness" to explain their findings from a large survey that involved 15,000 people, who were 18 to 28 years old.
The pair found that people who reside in areas that are densely populated were more likely to report less satisfaction with their life. The greater the population density, the less happy the respondents said they were.
Researchers also found that the more interaction the respondents had with their close friends, the greater their self-reported happiness was.
There was, however, a huge exception: for intelligent people, the correlations were reversed or diminished.
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More Alone Time, Please
The team measured intelligence thru the people's intelligent quotient. Although the exact IQ levels of the respondents were not disclosed, the baseline is considered 100, while genius level is at 140.
Kanazawa and Li found that the effect of population density on life satisfaction was more than twice as large for individuals with low IQ than for individuals with high IQ.
In fact, more intelligent individuals were less satisfied with their life if they socialized with their friends more frequently.
In other words: intelligent people tended to need more alone time. If they spend too much time with friends, they would feel less satisfied with life.
makes sense.
im very intelligent and many people dont like me and vice versa.
im very opinionated and i would never befriend someone just for the sake of having a friend.
meanwhile dumb will always surround itself with more dumb.
