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#585 - Adam Mastroianni - Are Smart People Actually Happier?

Modern Wisdom

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Is There a Correlation Between Intelligence and Happiness?

If you're a guy who can score a 150 on an IQ test, but you live in a basement and all you do is yell about how unfortunate you are all day, it just seems to be like, actually, you are not very smart in an important way. Does that mean that smart people are more miserable or is there no correlation between intelligence and happiness? Yeah, no correlation. So this has been found across study that did some of this analysis myself. It seems like there's either no correlation or a very tiny one that can easily go in either direction.

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