Darn, you pointed out that I didn't word it very well. And I agree with you. What I meant to say was that "impulsive" people may have been culled off in Europe over the last millennia. I take it people didn't take well to any underlings talking back to the pope during the 1000+ years of despotic, communist rule the vatican had in Europe. I could be wrong, it's just a hunch. > conscientiousness and it is quite important for life outcomes. It's second most. Second to IQ actually. This could be what I was meaning. I don't work in the field but need to get my words more straight, I appreciate it. I know many high IQ individuals who are kind of like crazed psychopaths. Sex addicts, secret drug addicts, plus other problems. They are very likely to attack you secretly if you critique them out of turn. Academia is far overrun with sharks, not dolphins. It's not that all high IQ people have this issue at all, just that I've noticed this issue among high IQ people that I spend time with (regression to the mean fallacy??). Some of these narcissistic qualities in academia is highlighted in "Tribal Leadership" (can't remember the author) where he talks about the "I'm great, and you're not" level, which is identified as a level of "self mastery". To get to the higher levels requires more than IQ. This gives me another consideration and realization. I kind of made my assumptions independent of IQ and you've clued me into something. When I hold IQ constant I saw a correlation of success "conscientiousness." This is actually another realization that is crystallizing things a bit more. I for sure need to experiment and review more on this, as this may nicely explain why it's harder to red-pill "normies." Good stuff, we should talk more. I read your intro writeup on eugenics in the other sub you mentioned. Interesting.