[extropy-chat] IQ not key to happiness

[Damien Broderick]

>On 7/17/05, Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > IQ not the key to a happy life
> > 
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15945311%255E30417,00.html 
>
> >
> > Money can't buy you happiness, and now it seems  brains can't either.

The claim isn't that smart old people are *more* unhappy than stupid old 
people (although they might be):

<Researchers say clever people are no more likely to be happy in their old 
age than anybody else. >

"Better to be an unhappy Socrates than a happy pig," as the proverb has it. 
How much better, then, to be an unhappy Socrates than an unhappy pig.