> My guess is being around 30% smarter than average is the sweet spot.
As phrased, this is completely meaningless. What are you thinking of here? You think people are best off at the 80th percentile?
As phrased, this is completely meaningless. What are you thinking of here? You think people are best off at the 80th percentile?
Also there is an average IQ (though a poor metric). The average is 100, a 30% increase would be approximately 133 points.
"Intelligence tests are one of the most popular types of psychological tests in use today. On the majority of modern IQ tests, the average (or mean) score is set at 100 with a standard deviation of 15 so that scores conform to a normal distribution curve. This means that 68 percent of scores fall within one standard deviation of the mean (that is, between 85 and 115), and 95 percent of scores fall within two standard deviations (between 70 and 130)."
Therefore, roughly speaking - what I proposed is that being in the top 5% can be either a blessing or (more easily) a serious impediment to a happy life.
Or you could be the 'lucky' one who gets carted around as some genius for 'all to see'
ie: Unless you want to sit in a cave and wire yourself to a computer, an IQ in the top .00001% is useless for being happy on Earth.