Marginalium

Why Intelligent People Are Less Happy:

An argument for why intelligent people are less happy—because intelligence does not measure how good you are at solving the poorly defined problems of life:

Spearman … did not, as he claimed, observe a “continued tendency to success throughout all variations of both form and subject-matter,” nor has anybody else. It merely looks as if we’ve varied all the forms and the subject-matters because we have the wrong theory about what makes them different … I think a good name for problems like these is well-defined … problems