Intelligence and Weirdness Are Not Correlates
I’m studying at Panera Bread today and just overheard two employees talking about a third person. One of them said, “She’s really smart, but weird. A lot of smart people are strange, you know, like, eccentric.”
Not in my experience. In my experience, smart people aren’t weird and not-so-smart people aren’t weird. Weird people are weird. I see no correlation between a person’s intelligence and his or her social skills. The nerdy smart kid is a high school stigma that people carry into adulthood, but it ignores millions of Ultimate Fighting fans who are both average or below average intelligence but also lacking in social giftedness.
And we’re all weird in some ways. Take, for instance, my passion for the Detroit Lions….
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“Take, for instance, my passion for the Detroit Lions….”
I would not call that weird…just misguided.
Since they drafted Ndamukong Suh, the entire state of Nebraska are now Lions fans. Yes… it’s a really weird state.
Can’t wait to see Suh in blue and silver coming after Favre, Cutler, Rodgers, etc.