Research suggests that high intelligence doesn't protect against bad decisions - it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions they were already going to make - Silicon Canals

"A landmark 2012 study published in Nature Climate Change by Yale researcher Dan Kahan and colleagues tested whether higher science literacy and technical reasoning skills would help people converge on the facts about contested issues like climate change. What they found was the opposite. People with the highest degrees of science literacy weren't the most aligned on the evidence. They were the most polarized."

"The assumption most people carry around is that intelligence protects you from bad thinking. That if you're smart enough, you'll see through your own biases, weigh the evidence fairly, and arrive at the right conclusion. It sounds reasonable. It's also wrong."

"The smarter you are, the better you are at finding evidence for what you want to be true. Not a"

A 2012 study from Yale revealed that individuals with high science literacy are often more polarized on contested issues rather than aligned with the facts. Their advanced reasoning skills enable them to construct convincing arguments for their pre-existing beliefs instead of leading them to the truth. This phenomenon suggests that intelligence does not necessarily protect against biases, as smarter individuals may become better at justifying incorrect positions rather than recognizing their own motives and errors in reasoning.

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