Surprisingly, being smart can actually make bias worse. Let me give you a different intuitive frame: the smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view. After all, people in the “spin room” in a political setting are generally prett

Measuring how smart people are is somewhat pointless – intelligence is categorical. Somebody can be super good at analytical ‘figuring out stuff,’ and super useless at conceptualizing what to do next.

Intelligence: the ability to learn complex concepts quickly and communicate those concepts in an easy-to-understand manner.

As Jean Piaget said, being smart is not ‘knowing lots‘;2 it is how you think, feel and behave at the moments when your accumulated store of knowledge and skill doesn’t give you a ready answer, and you have to ‘think on your feet’.

Intelligence, we think, is ultimately about pursuing our passions and goals in life in a way that is compatible with the well-being of our fellow men and women.