&gt;  It&#x27;s just that non-stupid people aren&#x27;t so interested in sports. Got it.<p>No, it&#x27;s that they have <i>other</i> things they are interested in. Rather than spending 50% of their time on sports, they might spend 10% of their time on sports and 40% on something else. That&#x27;s not a negative thing: it&#x27;s just indicative of the fact that the brighter one is the broader one&#x27;s horizons.<p>&gt; There has been and still is something of a shunning of sports among the &quot;intelligentsia&quot;.<p>No doubt because sports is something at which one can excel while not being particularly intelligent. Again, that&#x27;s not a negative statement: it&#x27;s just that physical and intellectual ability don&#x27;t seem (to me) to be highly correlated.<p>&gt; I work with a lot of really smart people. A big chunk of them are invested in sports and discuss games at work, wear jerseys on Friday, etc.<p>I was very careful not to say that intelligent people hate sports, because I too know many intelligent people who enjoy them. All I&#x27;m suggesting is that I suspect that as IQ rises people will spend less of their time on sports because they will spend more of their time on other pursuits.