[extropy-chat] IQ not key to happiness

[Damien Sullivan]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +1000, Brett Paatsch wrote:
> IQ not the key to a happy life
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15945311%255E30417,00.html

  Ian Hickie, executive director of the Brain and Mind
  Research Institute at Sydney University, said it was
  fashionable among neurologists to think that individual brain
  characteristics could influence happiness. 
  
  However, the quality of social networks was likely to play a
  far bigger role, he said. "People value you more for your
  contribution, rather than whether you are smart," he said. 

I was under the impression that the "individual brain characteristics"
posited were not intelligence but were personality traits, such as baseline
happiness.  

-xx- Damien X-)