{"id":20126,"date":"2022-06-27T06:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T04:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20126"},"modified":"2022-06-27T06:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T04:47:51","slug":"when-intelligence-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/06\/when-intelligence-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"When intelligence hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a real title of a scientific paper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jopy.12709\">When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Higher intelligence may have a downside in the modern world, by allowing life satisfaction to be more vulnerable from being better able to comprehend the severity of problems that did not exist in the ancestral world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>which isn&#8217;t an unexpected conclusion &#8211; although <a href=\"https:\/\/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu\/2022\/06\/24\/example-of-inappropriate-use-of-causal-language-from-observational-data\/\">Gelman<\/a> notes some circular argument <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/~gelman\/research\/published\/power5r.pdf\">as in earlier Kanazawa papers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the past few years, Satoshi Kanazawa, a reader in management and research methodology at the London School of Economics, published a series of papers in the Journal of Theoretical Biology with titles such as \u201cBig and Tall Parents Have More Sons\u201d (2005), \u201cViolent Men Have More Sons\u201d (2006), \u201cEngineers Have More Sons, Nurses Have More Daughters\u201d (2005), and \u201cBeautiful Parents Have More Daugh-ters\u201d (2007). More recently, he has publicized some of these claims in an article, \u201c10 Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature,\u201d for Psychology Today and in a book written with Alan S. Miller, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters.However, the statistical analysis underlying Kanazawa\u2019s claims has been shown to have basic flaws, with some of his analyses making the error of controlling for an intermediate outcome in estimating a causal effect, and another analysis being subject to multiple-comparisons problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I wholeheartedly agree with Gelman, his objection nevertheless confirms the hypothesis&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a real title of a scientific paper &#8220;When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss&#8216; Higher intelligence may have a downside in the modern world, by allowing life satisfaction to be more vulnerable from being better able to comprehend the severity of problems that did not exist in the ancestral world. which isn&#8217;t an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/06\/when-intelligence-hurts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When intelligence hurts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3868,1891],"class_list":["post-20126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","tag-gelman","tag-controversy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20129,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126\/revisions\/20129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}