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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by themarty27 to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

A picture of a man jumping into a lake as his friends look on, with overlaid text saying, "There is a correlation between intelligence and low impulse control".

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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

I dislike the wording. The use of the word "low" should either be left out entirely or placed before both intelligence and impulse. The way it is written now it could confer that low impulse control reflects high intelligence.

[–] neptune@dmv.social 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A positive corelation? Or negative

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jackie_meaiii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I'm stupid and have low impulse control. Does that help

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

Hidden baiting.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It’s for the audience to decide

[–] themarty27 1 points 10 months ago

The intent is to imply that low impulse control shows high intelligence.

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Everything is a roll your own adventure now

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.ml 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this by Inspirobot? Its most-upvoted quote on r/inspirobot uses the same image.
Be born rich

[–] themarty27 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, it's from there.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This seems like one of these “truths” that sound right, but the neuroscience is lacking or unconfirmed. For example, people who do poorly in school don’t necessarily have impulse control issues, and people who do better in school don’t necessarily have high impulse control.

In fact, lots of CEO and VC types seems to have poor impulse control, but other factors of their life, luck and personality seem to favor them. There’s also the cultural phenomenon of the asshole 10X engineer who people put up with because they’re so smart etc. I could be wrong as I haven’t looked into this extensively. Here’s a study though: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16255386/

To me it seems that for most people being intelligent or not is unrelated to success, academic or otherwise, and impulsivity is besides the point—what seems to matter most is the ability of someone to play well with others (EQ rather than IQ) if they’re anywhere left on the IQ bell curve. You can be impulsive, but play it off as charming or troubled if you have high EQ. High IQ people can afford being assholes (which sucks).

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

People with adhd generally have poor academic performance due to lack of impulse control. Those who do perform are either treated with therapy and sometimes stimulants, or they brute force their way through on pure IQ. Cognitive control is very important in getting shit done regardless of intelligence.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

That's true. Impulse control and intelligence scale proportionally.