Quote: (09-02-2018 12:46 PM)Cation Wrote:
Mage, I agree on everything you said (I researched the topic of lottery winners a few years ago), apart from the "lottery is for stupid people". That is simply not true.
That is like saying that gamblers usually have below average IQ. Bullshit.
It is true that poor people buy lottery tickets more often than rich people, but it has nothing to do with intelligence.
Source:
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/...mographics
The thing is stupidity is more then just having a low IQ. A person can have high IQ and still be stupid. Actually, there are levels of stupidity only high IQ people are capable of. Some high IQ people use their high IQ to rationalize (aka hamsterize) their emotion driven behavior to extremes impossible to a person with lower IQ and lower abilities of rationalization. Each time a person acts out of a bind habit they have been indoctrinated/brainwashed into they are also acting stupid - no matter how god they are at doing math, solving Rubik's cube or passing IQ tests.