On the Subject of Intelligence: An Enquiry on the Utility of IQ as a Metric of Value

by, D.W. Svenson

In the course of natural conversation, whenever the subject of intelligence is addressed, I am occasionally treated with the harrowing tale of the troubled genius. This invariably results in the speculation that those with inordinately high IQs have the peculiar tendency to be miserable, unsuccessful, or both despite possessing the gift of stellar cognition. The follow-up is, of course, then, “If we take that to be true, what is it that makes them so prone to being…