Any smart person who really knows how to control the actions of less intelligent people could potentially make a fortune advising corrections facilities, juvenile halls, and schools with severe chronic discipline problems
I’m in general agreement with your post, but being good at X is quite different from being good at teaching how to do X.
This assumes that we are talking about a single linear measure of intelligence, which doesn’t seem to be the case with normal humans. For example the same person can be above average in spacial reasoning but below average in verbal reasoning.
The relevant analogy for this would be social intelligence, so the person you should be the most suspicious of is the person who has displayed the greatest ability to manipulate social situations, though ironically if they are socially intelligent they should be able to prevent you suspecting them.
I’m in general agreement with your post, but being good at X is quite different from being good at teaching how to do X.
Good point. Anyway, I think we agree that controlling people is not always an easy task, even for people who are very, very smart in other ways.
This assumes that we are talking about a single linear measure of intelligence, which doesn’t seem to be the case with normal humans. For example the same person can be above average in spacial reasoning but below average in verbal reasoning.
The relevant analogy for this would be social intelligence, so the person you should be the most suspicious of is the person who has displayed the greatest ability to manipulate social situations, though ironically if they are socially intelligent they should be able to prevent you suspecting them.