Quote Originally Posted by lecter View Post
i think all things being equal an inability to communicate effectively to anyone is indicative of lower intelligence, because it is a goal and skill intelligence can be leveraged towards...
Who do you adapt to tho? If you're 180 IQ do you adapt to the 160 IQ or the 140 IQ or the 100 IQ? You adapt to the group that you need to deal with, not all the groups, because one skill-set is not enough. The reason why it's very hard to adapt to people beyond 1 standard deviation and almost impossible to adapt to people beyond 2 standard deviations is that you tune your message for 3 groups already in any sort of social skill set. The people directly above and below you and the people equal to you as the social system block these individuals together due to ability for the purpose of cooperative tasks.

At very high IQ this could be 1% of the population, if IQ is even a useful metric at those levels. At a certain point people's adaptive capabilities no matter how good they are only address a very small slice of the population. Now if they're lucky, they will have someone they work with who will do this communication for them, as a third party agent.

There have been intelligent people I've worked with whom I can't communicate with and I have a lot of trouble communication with most people at even above average IQ, they have virtually insurmountable communication issues because they are at a wavelength few of us could comprehend. The lucky thing is that sometimes intelligent individuals(dumb ones too) start recognizing when someone is so far above them they can't even understand them that these individuals get protected from having to actually being exposed to some of these issues. Over time as long as a very intelligent individual is providing value for others, shows their knowledge is valid, they can over come some of these social hurdles. Communication isn't always that important.