Actually, being wrong means that you don't know what you are talking about.
It's not about definitions, it is about scientific facts.
IQ tests are based on the model of crystallized and fluid intelligence that I explained.
None of you people did any research before posting in this thread. I have some knowledge and experience on this particular subject so I thought it'd be nice to let you people know that you are all dead wrong.
If you cannot take the criticism, I'm sorry. I was in no way insulting or unfriendly.
I know, that the first post says “do you guys believe there is a correlation, or link, between intelligence and manipulation”, but this is no opinion based thread. I provided the answer to that question.
The ability to manipulate people requires many skills. Those skills enhance your social intelligence.
I did not provide an oversimplified explanation. I provided an explanation that is actually quite interesting and very complicated.
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All I could add is sources for my claims if you wish.
Though I probably won't do that because I am lazy and done for now.
I have a great story about this;
When I was in highschool, I had a friend named Ricky and he was friends with a very manipulative kid named Jerry. At lunch Jerry would throw carrots at Ricky's face and then after words ask Ricky to buy him corn dogs, and he would do it.(Ricky was not the only one that continued to take shit from Jerry, he did it to many other people.) . I've stuck up for Ricky many of times and got on to Jerry about it and tried to (maturely) get him to stop. But Ricky continued to buy Jerry corn dogs and get carrots thrown in his face. After two months, I had enough of seeing this happen and decided to help Ricky out because he was one of my good friends and I hated seeing this. Mind you this was freshman year and I was not quite wise at the time. I basically got up and started a fight with Jerry and I ended up breaking his nose so he went ahead and used this as an angle to make Ricky not be friends with me anymore. It worked, Ricky never talked to me again and Jerry continued giving him shit. Ricky was a pretty smart kid too, he got good grades and never really acted like an idiot. It's a sad fact that there are bad people out there like Jerry that are good manipulators, but use it for a wrong reason.
Moral of the story, there's correlation between push overs and manipulation for sure. But there is also a correlation between intelligence and manipulation.
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A more intelligent person may come up with maniulating strategies that work, but I think it works in the other way aswell. A more intelligent person is less prone to manipulation.
I would like to think that it takes a little but of both.
It takes brain power to get your power to begin with.
I also think that it requires brain power to be the manipulator, and that it requires much less brain power to be the manipulated.
Please stop making points which are either unrelated to the topic (how easy it is to be manipulated is not relevant to how easy it is to manipulate), repeats of previous posts, or completely obvious. Some of the things you are saying are passably component but I feel like you are not reading all of the posts in this thread to check whether you are actually adding anything new to the discussion.
This discussion is going in circles. I feel like there are other aspects of this topic we could cover so I would rather not close this thread. If the discussion fails to advance it will be closed though.