"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g&amp;t=49m00s"">49:00</a> The fear that people will consider people better/worse according to genetic predisposition across groups seems to afflict intelligent people who insist most passionately that intelligence is NOT a measure of a person's value.  Less intelligent people often recognize that others are SMARTER than they are", but that doesn't necessarily affect their self-esteem.<br><br>There's a self-selection issue.  Academics who are (generally) more intelligent than people who pursue different lives are the very people most likely to OVERVALUE the importance of intelligence at the individual level.<br><br>My pop-psych take on that is that the more intelligent individuals really do have a strong bias that intelligence is such a crucially-important trait that people with lower intelligent are worse, but they don't want to admit it.,(reply>), @William Parker Yep, that makes a lot of sense, because agreed, I've met a lot more "kinda smart" people who acted that way than ever "really smart" people.,(reply>), I think that those people who overvalue intelligence are not intelligent enough to meta-analyze intelligence. Some truly great minds I've seen never had this condescension. They know that the world is complex and there could be many factors at play.