American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth (2016)
1. The author is unfortunately misguided.  It is not the society, but market&#x2F;economics of today that value intelligence more than anything else, mainly because it is directly correlated with economic output.  (conscientiousness being the other major factor).<p>2. On the other hand, Sport teams value speed, strength and agility, eye coordination, height, etc... .  basically physical prowess.  
You can&#x27;t blame them, nobody is willing to pay to watch a bunch of average out of shape people playing a sport, but they are willing to see peak performance.<p>3. Same with music, film&#x2F;movie, and theatre, we are naturally want to see great performances, art, and&#x2F;or beautiful things.<p>#2 and #3 have been historically more important than #1, and now number #1 (intelligence), is becoming more important due to its economic output and not because society started valuing it more.<p>-- Seems like it was written by a luddite, with no concept of economy output. It like someone from 1910 saying:  &quot;We should ban automation in farming and tractors and other machinery should be banned, as where all these farmers will find jobs&quot;...<p>&quot;We must stop glorifying intelligence and treating our society as a playground for the smart minority. We should instead begin shaping our economy, our schools, even our culture with an eye to the abilities and needs of the majority, and to the full range of human capacity. The government could, for example, provide incentives to companies that resist automation, thereby preserving jobs for the less brainy. It could also discourage hiring practices that arbitrarily and counterproductively weed out the less-well-IQ’ed. This might even redound to employers’ benefit: Whatever advantages high intelligence confers on employees, it doesn’t necessarily make for more effective, better employees. &quot;