If we take it as a given that vaccine hesitancy was the "right" answer it suggests a strong confounding factor (brainwashing or herd following being correlated with IQ?) and/or the paper is simply bunk and reflects the author's biases.
P.S. - albeit IQ and educational attainment are not synonymous but at least up through IQ +3 std devs I'd guess they are highly correlated.
Educational attainment may also be correlated with economics rather than IQ. And IQ as traditionally defined is a narrow range of cognitive abilities, mostly based on logic and spatial manipulation. The raw innate IQ of someone who can see what is what - a BS barometer or raw instinct for those who aren't into touch feely terms like quantum intuitive insight, are probably more prevalent in those with less "education," since education is largely a way of co-opting rather than liberating minds. Look at how many intelligent people have been tracked through Harvard/MIT/Broad institute/The Edge/WEF. So these people are co-opted either through promise of power, the seduction of ego and playing with those in power (or sleeping with them) or idealistic illusions of becoming leaders and influencers of a better world. This is just high class brainwashing but it seems to occur among those with high IQ, hence I don't think IQ is the issue, but whether one is susceptible to giving one's power away to others.
I had seen that one..it is curious and led me to speculate vaccine uptake vs IQ might be an arc.
That said, at least according to this paper, the correlation is monotonic, see figure 2.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8133799/
If we take it as a given that vaccine hesitancy was the "right" answer it suggests a strong confounding factor (brainwashing or herd following being correlated with IQ?) and/or the paper is simply bunk and reflects the author's biases.
P.S. - albeit IQ and educational attainment are not synonymous but at least up through IQ +3 std devs I'd guess they are highly correlated.
I don't think people who have little schooling necessarily have a lower IQ. Look at Einstein and Tesla - both dropouts
agreed. I attempted to address this outlier case in my P.S.
Educational attainment may also be correlated with economics rather than IQ. And IQ as traditionally defined is a narrow range of cognitive abilities, mostly based on logic and spatial manipulation. The raw innate IQ of someone who can see what is what - a BS barometer or raw instinct for those who aren't into touch feely terms like quantum intuitive insight, are probably more prevalent in those with less "education," since education is largely a way of co-opting rather than liberating minds. Look at how many intelligent people have been tracked through Harvard/MIT/Broad institute/The Edge/WEF. So these people are co-opted either through promise of power, the seduction of ego and playing with those in power (or sleeping with them) or idealistic illusions of becoming leaders and influencers of a better world. This is just high class brainwashing but it seems to occur among those with high IQ, hence I don't think IQ is the issue, but whether one is susceptible to giving one's power away to others.
Also the Rhodes scholar program - see WW