Twin study suggests rationality and intelligence share the same genetic roots - the study suggests that being irrational, or making illogical choices, might simply be another way of measuring lower intelligence.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/twin-study-suggests-rationality-and-intelligence-share-the-same-genetic-roots/

[u/peteypete78]

Dumb people make dumb decisions? Who would have thunk it.

[u/BrainKatana → u/peteypete78]

Incredibly smart people also make dumb decisions so something seems off about this study.

[u/Sinai → u/BrainKatana]

That's the great thing about quantitative testing, because you can show exactly how much more often dumb people make of wrong decisions in different situations, and then you have learned something about how much more or less intelligence matters in different situations.

[u/demonicneon → u/Sinai]

Who decides what is irrational though?

[u/demonicneon → u/[deleted]]

Doesn’t seem to test for the whole breadth of intelligence then does it though ? Also doesn’t represent real life whatsoever, where there are more situations that don’t have one correct answer, doesn’t account for social intelligences, or spacial, or musical, or…