Why haven't the extremely high IQ people solved some of world's problems?

Question

Michael Sidaris
Marilyn Vos Savant
Kim Ung-Yong
and others

Why haven't these people solved the world's pressing issues? It isn't a diatribe. I have all the sympathy and fascination for these people. I am just curious.

Answer 1

Actually, highly intelligent people have solved thousands of the world's problems. Diseases are cured, damns are built, food is grown, etc., from their work.

Many times, it's not the method that is lacking (which is what the high IQ person would provide). Usually the solution lacks resources, public willingness, time, political cooperation, and/or technology.

Answer 2

Simple, because the rest of the population doesn't want to listen to them. Statistically these people represent about .001% of the population. And besides, the people that are trying the solve the world's problems would have to admit:
a) they're doing a poor job at it, and most importantly
b) that there are people out there that are smarter them!

You show me an academic, that makes 6 figures a year, drives a Mercedes Benz, has 4 kids and a dog named 'patriot' as a respected specialist in something hand over the keys to his lab to some abstract, socks don't match, shoes untied, frizzy haired ultra genius who has a penchant for pizza pops and diet coke!? oh and by the way, could probably make some serious progress in cancer research. The fact is these ultra high IQs are out numbered, and the guys that are in the lab now don't want to get off the bus for no one, so they try to discredit them. Which is why these ultra high IQs are little more then footnotes or side shows on web sites that answer puzzles.

Answer 3

You'd think that solving Aids or eliminating pollution was something easy, but people have limits. Some of these are simply impossible to do on one's own, and when enough people get together to try to solve it, then they stupidly compete to try and get credit - and everyone loses at that point.
And really, most of the world's problems are caused by people. think, high birthrates in low developed countries come from the people themselves who have little control. Organized crime - well, people joined crime for a reason, and since they are social, there is not magic drug or book that can help that.
Another thing I've noticed is that people are selfish, so normally, we solve our own problems first before we can help anyone else. So if a smart person exists, he/she first has to feed himself and his family. Then even if he were capable of learning/discovering a way to say.... find a warp hole device, then he could still find a road block for being too poor, unwilling, or just bad luck.

Answer 4

An ultra high IQ apparently isn't all you need to solve the worlds problems. It would seem that wisdom, initiative, leadership, likability, determination, and luck play a much greater role in that. If those things were a element of general intelligence every successful politician, scientist, CEO and artist would have a genius IQ... and the people you listed would have accomplished a lot more with their life.

Answer 5

Having a high IQ doesn't automatically make someone capable of solving the world's problems, and it isn't possible to do with only one person versus the over 6 billion people on the planet that would have to go along with that person's solutions, which may or may not work.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Our culture celebrates "genius" in a way that is crushing and stifling to gifted individuals. I think most suffer under the weight of societal pressure to perform like sideshows early in life and choose to retract into privacy as they get older. Solving world problems would require stepping out in that uncomfortable spotlight once more.

Answer 8

Because we are making too much Money dealing with these problems ... we also garner more and more control and the public gives up more and more if it's Rights every time it asks," Why Doesn't The Government Do Something???"

If you pay attention, you will see H.E.W. become more Terrible that the IRS ever imagined it was ....... Their main tentacle will be the CDC .......

Have a Nice Day ..............

Answer 9

Because we keep giving positions of responsibility to people who either don't know how to solve the world's problems, or who don't want to solve the world's problems.

Answer 10

Because man's intelligence or learning will never solve the world's pressing issues.

This is because the world's problems are caused by sin. The sin problem can only be fixed one person at a time.

The solution is as follows:

Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, died on the cross to save us from our sin, rose the third day to conquer death for us, ascended to heaven to prepare a place for us, and is coming back to get all who believe this.
Will you believe this?
Would you like to go with Jesus when He returns?