{"id":919,"date":"2003-06-10T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T19:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/10\/intelligence-vs-integrity\/"},"modified":"2003-06-10T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2003-06-10T19:23:18","slug":"intelligence-vs-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/10\/intelligence-vs-integrity","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence vs Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew found an interesting article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/002\/730avutr.asp\">Too Smart To Be Dumb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><i>Reading [the relevance of intelligence] in a book review the other day reminded me (for reasons you\u2019ll soon understand) of a car accident my wife and daughter were lucky to walk away from three years ago. A 16-year-old driving a new Lincoln coupe hit them at 70 mph\u2013twice the speed limit\u2013after careening off a hillside. Later that night the kid\u2019s mother told me how shocked she was by the witness reports of his reckless driving. \u201cBut he got 1550 on his SAT,\u201d she&nbsp;cried.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you do for a living?\u201d I&nbsp;asked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was no surprise to hear that she\u2019s a college professor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like millions of intellectual elites and wannabes, this woman presumes an inherent connection between intelligence and goodness, and between intelligence and wisdom, as though there exists some objective domain of ethicality to which Mensa members are automatically admitted.<\/p>\n<p>The article is primarily a political one, but it\u2019s got a recurring theme that I found quite interesting: smart doesn\u2019t imply moral. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/002\/730avutr.asp\">Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew found an interesting article called Too Smart To Be Dumb. Here\u2019s an excerpt: Reading [the relevance of intelligence] in a book review the other day reminded me (for reasons you\u2019ll soon understand) of a car accident my wife and daughter were lucky to walk away from three years ago. A 16-year-old driving a new \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/10\/intelligence-vs-integrity\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cIntelligence vs Integrity\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}