Why super-smart people may be drawn to a life of crime
<i>Many prevailing theories of intelligence suggest that people with lower IQs are the ones most likely to break the law, since impulsivity, struggles at school, lack of social bonding, and lack of foresight are all linked to criminality.</i><p>...<p><i>the overall amount of crime in this range is still “much, much lower” than among people with very low IQ scores.</i><p>In fact what I would expect you find is that these groups of people break <i>different</i> laws, not fewer.<p>The &quot;low IQ&quot; group likely have less capability of breaking say, regulatory laws, by virtue of standing or access. They are more likely to break laws like B&amp;E, drug dealing, petty larceny, etc... that are more harshly and more frequently prosecuted.<p>The laws that high performing, and High IQ people would be breaking, securities, privacy, regulatory etc... might not be prosecuted at all, or at most would lead to civil fines.<p>I think the bottom line is that &quot;high IQ&quot; people will tend to have more capability to break white collar crimes, and will do so with better cover (lawyers, special accounting etc...).