While personality traits like being generous and conscientious have an effect on cooperation, higher IQ is the main factor that encourages people to work well together.
That is why people with high IQs are so essential: without them society would not work.
People with lower intelligence tend not to use a consistent strategy and fail to consider the consequences of their actions, the researchers also found.
Professor Eugenio Proto, who led the study, said:
"We wanted to explore what factors make us effective social animals.The research involved participants playing a series of games that test cooperation and how risk is traded against reward.
In other words, what enables us to behave optimally in situations when cooperation is potentially beneficial not only to us, but to our neighbours, people in the same country or who share the same planet.
Professor Proto said:
"People might naturally presume that people who are nice, conscientious and generous are automatically more cooperative.Dr Andis Sofianos, study co-author, said:
But, through our research, we find overwhelming support for the idea that intelligence is the primary condition for a socially cohesive, cooperative society.
A good heart and good behaviour have an effect too but it's transitory and small.
An additional benefit of higher intelligence in our experiment, and likely in real life, is the ability to process information faster, hence to accumulate more extensive experience, and to learn from it.
This scenario can be applied to the workplace, where it's likely that intelligent people who see the bigger picture and work cooperatively, will ultimately be promoted and financially rewarded."
"The core principle of working cooperatively and seeing the bigger picture also applies to international trade, where there is overwhelming evidence that free trade is a non-zero sum game i.e. all parties could benefit.The study was published in the Journal of Political Economy (Proto et al., 2018).
With education, our results suggest that focusing on intelligence in early childhood could potentially enhance not only the economic success of the individual, but the level of cooperation in society in later life."
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IQ just makes life easier, regardless of Being-orientation.
Interesting in that both were developed using Ashkenazi Jews as the guinea pigs.
It has always been known, in the scientific community, that robots make better people than people do.
And it has since been verified repeatedly, in completely sterile and fully regulated laboratory environments.
And this is most significant.
signed,
Dr. Proto Zoan
The word 'crobe' means: 'To start inside a funny place inside of another place that had nothing to do with what I just said, but's it place beyond a place to the left of you that's special.'
This word is reserved only for those of high enough I.Q. to understand it.
To be of high I.Q. is very special.
signed,
Dr. And Is So Full of It
The above two mental giants are just using their noodles, in the appropriate and modern fashion.
When you mix balderdash with your spaghetti, and if you do it for long enough, you too can become a mental giant.
And most importantly, you will receive an advanced pay check, ie., a large and regular cash dividend from your government, the one that is in charge of banking and finance.
And this will be because you cooperated with these 'official' authorities.
And repeated and upheld their lies.
Ad infinitum.
Don't call this bribery and organized crime though. Don't call it dishonesty. Only stupid people would say that.
Have a nice day.
ned,
out
Kinda like when an electron acts/reacts as a wave or particle altered when observed.