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===Why can high IQ people be failures?=== | ===Why can high IQ people be failures?=== | ||
==='Troubled genius' trope=== | ==='Troubled genius' trope=== | ||
Some people argue that outlier high-IQ is associated with general social maladjustment, possibly caused by difficulties in social intercourse among people of different intelligence levels. This greater social maladjustment on behalf of the very intelligent, if accurate, would suggest a link between extreme levels of intelligence and involuntary celibacy as social exclusion and low achievement do not tend to be generally good things regarding men's romantic prospects. | |||
This idea was first expounded upon at length by a member of several high-IQ societies, Grady M. Towers, who wrote a famous article called "The Outsiders" for the journal of the Prometheus society (a society for people at or above the 99.997th percentile of IQ), Gift of Fire.<ref>https://prometheussociety.org/wp/articles/the-outsiders/</ref> | This idea was first expounded upon at length by a member of several high-IQ societies, Grady M. Towers, who wrote a famous article called "The Outsiders" for the journal of the Prometheus society (a society for people at or above the 99.997th percentile of IQ), Gift of Fire.<ref>https://prometheussociety.org/wp/articles/the-outsiders/</ref> | ||