Intelligence doesn’t make you immune to conspiracy theories – it’s more about thinking style(theconversation.com)

posted 8 months ago

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cmbabul@lemmy.world

3 points

8 months ago

Im too lazy to find the statistic but im pretty sure the likelihood of joining a cult increases with intelligence. And cultic and conspiratorial thinking ain’t that dissimilar

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DoYouNot@lemmy.world

8 points

8 months ago

Eh, 90% of statistics are made up anyway. 🙃

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SendMePhotos@lemmy.world

4 points

8 months ago

Actually 89.67.

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surge_1@lemmy.world

11 points

8 months ago

Sounds like a conspiracy

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Magical Thinker@lemmy.dbzer0.com

7 points

8 months ago

Higher intelligence increases your ability to rationalize anything to yourself, and I think some people are less aware of the influence of various cognitive biases on their judgement.

Fairly unintuitive rabbit hole… leading into a network of warrens.

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