OT -- Sexual Deviance and IQ, etc.
There is some evidence (I seem to recall) in the later Kinsey Institute studies that socioeconomic status (+correlated with IQ) is +correlated with approval and participation in a variety of sexual outlets (which you may identify with "sexual deviance." Herrnstein and Murray in The Bell Curve show that IQ and degree of contact with criminal justice system for young white males are inversely correlated. They also discuss (p.244) Danish, New Zealand, and Kauai studies that indicated that IQ is a strong protectant against social deviancy (although not necessarily sexual deviancy) especially among children with other problems.
I don't mean to be insulting, but the weirdness of your fellow graduate students who were in the IQ>150 crowd may be the result of some kind of adverse selection. At highly selective graduate programs in science and engineering an IQ of >150 (>three sigma) would be commonplace. In any event, no inferences can be drawn from so small a sample.
I know of no IQ test for Albert Einstein, obviously a very creative man, and a good patent clerk, but a high IQ? I don't know. Can one consider spouse abuse as sexual deviancy in his time and place?
Finally, may we consider Clinton a sexual deviant? Sex on the side appears to be the norm among top executives (most of whom are highly intelligent). Lying about sex on the side appears to be an even more firmly established norm. None of this is intended to excuse, or even explain, his behavior. I do think it is unduly optimistic to expect powerful men either to abstain from such activities or to confess to them before it is absolutely necessary.
Part of the fun of human life is discovering the feet of clay of great men. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves
that we are underlings." Our ability to find fault and eject the great man from office provides all the gratification of assassination without the danger. It is really fun when the great man is overthrown because he has done things that we have done (had illicit sex and lied about it) and been caught at it (and we haven't). |
