My dad was a professor in some sort of engineering field and has a PhD in it but he always falls for the most obvious scams and never learns from his mistakes. If IQ and academics are correlated then explain to me why my dad is so dumb for falling for obvious cryptoscams and also believes masturbation can make you blind.

>>16710734 (OP)
>If IQ and academics are correlated
they aren't because
>some sort of engineering field
Every crackpot you will see at APS conferences is an engineering PhD, no exceptions

>>16710734 (OP)
An architect, an artist, and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress. The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship. The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there. The engineer said, "I like both." "Both?" Engineer: "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the gay bar and suck some cock."

>>16710734 (OP)
Genius retard syndrome. Nobody can be quite as retarded as an intelligent person. See Ben Carson, Elon Musk, John Von Neumann etc.

>>16710734 (OP)
Dude you wont believe the revelations about fellow engineers I was able to witness. And I myself am probably not actually neurotypical.
In the engineering sector it's completely normal that you're working on hard physics and math problems in the morning with someone and during lunch the guy that is educated and just showdshowed you that they perfectly understand physics and all will suddenly go on a half hour rant about 'the bell' some nazi aircraft that defies gravity, air resistance and everything else because someone spins a water vortex the right way round or something. And you'll be left wondering why the guy that just approximated some E- and H-fields around antennas with you... like get outta here.
Then again IQ and academics but more so IQ and field are correlated, on average. We know that. But: Are you sure that IQ and not falling for obvious scams are correlated? Isn't that at least as much a question of experience, naivity, trust and such? I bet an 70 IQ hoodlum will have seen more scams and deceit go down to be less naive in many situations than einstein would be.

>>16710734 (OP)
one can be an expert in one thing and not no shit about other things. being smart at one thing doesn't make you an expert on everything

>>16711005
there's a difference between being muh Expert™ and having basic critical thinking skills

Ben Carson is a top pediatric brain surgeon who believes the Great Pyramids were built as grain silos.

book smart vs street smart
there is a time for each

>>16710734 (OP)
Gullibility is independent of IQ.

>>16711024
I am not gullible to your unsubstantiated claim
t. High iq

>>16710772
Kary Mullis is my favorite example of this. Dude won the Nobel Prize for discovering PCR but was /x/ incarnate in pretty much all his views.

>>16710734 (OP)
He's a boomer.

>>16710752
kek
>>16711010
to be fair, that is indeed their bonus as a Wonder in Sid Meier’s Civilisation 2

>>16710734 (OP)
If you think that thing about masturbation is metaphore it's true, and doublecheck which memecoin he invested into, because crypto is not all scam.

>>16710734 (OP)
>engineering
That doesn't require any critical thinking

>>16710734 (OP)
Being intelligent doesn't make you immune to quackery.

Getting a PhD doesn't require intelligence.