@KDicupe Poor then was no AC, not enough to eat, no tv, one old car, living in an apartment with many people, crushing labor for a job. Poor now is no iPhone and no house, looking for work.
@OwenGregorian So, if you get upset by someone's speech and either punch them or ghost them, you have demonstrated your neuroticism and lack of openness, thus your own low intelligence, Karen.
4 Personality Traits That Have Powerful Links To Intelligence | Dr Jeremy Dean, PsyBlog
Four aspects of personality stand out for their connection to memory, knowledge and cognitive ability.
People who are energetic and physically active tend to perform better on a range of cognitive abilities, including information processing, memory and general knowledge, research finds.
In other words, being an active person is associated with knowing more across a wide range of subjects.
Activity is one aspect of extraversion, one of the major dimensions of personality. Other facets of extraversion include warmth, sociability, assertiveness, excitement seeking and positive emotionality.
The finding comes from a massive review examining the relationship between personality and cognitive abilities.
The researchers brought together more than 1,000 studies involving over 2 million people, covering approximately a century of research.
The study’s first author, Dr Kevin Stanek, explained that the project took more than 13 years and involved over 30 people working to locate, translate, enter and analyse more than 1,300 studies.
Open to experience
The review also found strong links between openness to experience and a broad range of cognitive abilities.
Of the major personality traits, openness to experience is most strongly associated with a high IQ.
People who score highly on openness tend to be curious about unfamiliar, complicated and unconventional things.
They are often interested in exploring new ideas and are more willing to entertain perspectives that differ from their own.
One reason for the connection with intelligence may be that high IQ is associated with a strong appetite for thinking and learning.
Conscientious and agreeable
The researchers also found that industriousness and compassion were positively associated with most measures of cognitive ability.
Industriousness is a facet of conscientiousness, while compassion forms part of the broader personality trait of agreeableness.
The relationship between agreeableness and intelligence is particularly noteworthy because it is not always recognised.
Research suggests that agreeable people can also be more intelligent.
Highly intelligent people have also been found to be more trusting, as well as more straightforward and altruistic.
Study co-author Professor Deniz Ones said that understanding the relationship between personality and intelligence opens up deeper questions about why these characteristics are connected.
She argued that the findings provide a broader picture of the differences between individuals and could help people better understand their own characteristics and abilities.
Neuroticism
Neuroticism showed a contrasting pattern, being consistently associated with lower cognitive abilities.
The trait is characterised by greater susceptibility to anxiety, sadness, irritability and self-consciousness.
People higher in neuroticism tend to perform less well on measures of logical reasoning and are also less likely to accumulate knowledge.
One possible explanation, however, is that the association partly reflects test-taking anxiety rather than differences in underlying cognitive ability, as some psychologists have suggested.
At the opposite end of neuroticism is emotional stability, which is consistently associated with higher IQ.
Emotionally stable people tend to cope better with stress and everyday frustrations.
They also generally have greater control over their impulses and are less preoccupied with how they are perceived by others.
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@ChathCoLineNews He should definitely build a competitor to Grok and train and run it with his handheld computer. He will easily be a trillionaire in a year. Why hasn't he already done this?
@elonmusk@amuse Elon, The robots have to save us before the communist ban them or 'liberate' them into weapons against us. I know you will do your best.
The Hill has posted my column on controversies over media companies this week from Trump's ban to the Warner Bros./Paramount merger. https://t.co/dApv9Wr6pX Politicians have long used their offices to insulate themselves from opposing coverage — all in the name of protecting us.
1990: Of course a man should absolutely help a woman with lifting heavy objects. If she's attractive, he might ask her to get a drink with him.
2026: First, who knows what a woman is? Second, is this a trap? Third, who else will be offended? Fourth, if this person is attractive, and everything seems safe... Oh, it's too late now, they are yelling at you and threatening to kill you.
Incorrect. Real median household income reached a record $87,460 in 2025 (inflation-adjusted), up 2.6% from 2024 and above the 2019 pre-pandemic peak. That is the latest official Census annual figure.
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For 2026, no full-year official Census number exists yet. Private monthly estimates (Motio Research and Political Calculations) put nominal median household income around $87,800–$88,150 in June–July 2026, with some month-to-month softness in real terms after mid-year. These track close to or slightly above the 2025 official level so far.