Research Confirms a Link between Intelligence and Life Expectancy

[Dexter]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/research-confirms-a-link-between-intelligence-and-life-expectancy/

A more surprising discovery is that there is a strong link between mortality and IQ: higher intelligence means, on average, a longer life. This relationship has been extensively documented by Ian Deary and his colleagues at the University of Edinburgh using data from the Scottish Mental Surveys.

[jmyrlefuller]

    A more surprising discovery is that there is a strong link between mortality and IQ: higher intelligence means, on average, a longer life. This relationship has been extensively documented by Ian Deary and his colleagues at the University of Edinburgh using data from the Scottish Mental Surveys.

What's so surprising about it? Smart people are less likely to make stupid decisions.

[truth_seeker]

When serving as a personnel management specialist in the Army, I learned that high IQ is one of the main criteria for infantry.

They use aptitude tests, and general IQ tests as well. They just call it something else.