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b_b · 4031 days ago · link · · parent · post: Those who ranked higher in generalized trust scored more highly on vocabulary and question comprehension.
Not quite convinced. What if less intelligent people become conditioned to being less trusting, because they've been taken advantage of more often. The metrics are a bit unconvincing, too, and the results aren't exactly striking. Therefore, this:
- The finding that generalized trust is highly correlated with intelligence, even after conditioning on socio-economic characteristics such as marital status, education, and income, supports the hypothesis that being able to evaluate someone’s quality as a trading partner is a distinct component of human intelligence, which evolved through natural selection
is a bit premature. Natural selection? Trading partner? Given that trade can be measured in millenia without using all of your fingers and toes, I highly doubt it.