High IQ people are good at manipulating and fitting mental lego blocks together. They are NOT inherently good at apprehending truth. Give a high IQ person a bunch of retarded building blocks (i.e. flawed axioms), and they’ll build an entire retarded mental castle

.@naval: Looking for truth is the opposite of looking for social approval. “I’m deeply suspicious of groups of people coming to the truth in anything, because it’s not to say groups are bad. Humans are cooperators by nature. We need groups to get things done. But... See more

Unfortunately some folks take several decades to understand that your chief goal on a team is not to prove you’re smart every chance you get. And most of them will continue with this insanity anyway, citing something something incentives.