(Reuters)
A commenter wanted me to post about Richard Matt, the criminal genius who managed to escape jail and evade the police for days. Despite being a vicious cold blooded killer, the Daily Beast reports he had a soft-side:
Inspired by portraits of Oprah Winfrey, he began crafting his own pencil drawings of the television icon. “He drew people pictures; he did a portfolio on Oprah and it was really, really good,” the supervisor, who requested anonymity, remembered fondly.
Oprah has mentioned than many men in prison watched her syndicated talk show which makes sense because there’s nothing to do in jail except watch TV and lift weights, and prisoners would have been drawn to the provocative topics of daytime TV. Also, the advice Oprah gave was incredibly helpful to people in hopeless circumstances because she preached that everyone should be grateful because what you focus on expands. Most prisoners focus on how small their world is, so their world becomes smaller. But as an Oprah fan, Richard Matt probably focused on how much freedom he had even in jail. By focusing on his freedom, his freedom expanded (he escaped prison). This is because just as negative thoughts lead to lead to negative actions which lead to negative feedback from your environment, which leads to more negative thoughts etc, positive thoughts do the opposite, creating a positive feedback loop.
Of course positive thinking is not enough. You also have to be smart. According to Matt’s son, he has a genius IQ. While lots of people claim genius IQ (i.e. 140+) and it’s usually not true, in Matt’s case it might be, because escaping jail and evading law enforcement is no easy task, especially in this day and age when police have advanced technology and surveillance is everywhere. The longer he evades authorities, the more likely it is that his IQ is high.
Also, as someone who spent so much time in the legal system from such a young age, it’s very likely a psychologist intelligence tested him on a version of the WISC or WAIS.
However because the average criminal has a low IQ (90), if Matt does have a genius IQ, he probably only narrowly made the cut, so his IQ might be 140 on the nose.
Pumpkin Person 
Try evading the authorities in a big city like NYC. This guy would have been caught in no time, if he decides to hide. Smart guys would buy a plane ticket immediately and fly away from the country.
But of course, it’s harder for a jailbird on the run. He’s unlikely to have a passport and he’s not committing a fresh crime, where he has a few days to evade much of the public attention.
Yes, escaping of a prison is one thing, don’t get caught is another one.
By the way what is your age and job JS ??
He is 45 and he is unemployed.
He is very tall which increase the probability of high IQ.
Btw, can you made a table with the size and the expected IQ ? (for europeans)
He is very tall which increase the probability of high IQ.
??? He’s only 5’10”, which is about average for white males in the US.
This guy looks more intelligent than the average criminal but he also has an “evil” look about him too. I’ve long been a believer in physiognomy; even when I was a kindergarten I noticed the bad kids had a certain look to them.
Well, I thought it was 6ft9 but it is 69 inches which is very different .
But my question to Pumpkin is still available.
You mean the expected highest IQ in each European country?
No, I mean a table with IQs and the expected heights, like for exemple:
Size IQ
185 cm 103
180 cm 102
Etc..
And do this for White males and females.
(I said Whites only because the others races have differents average sizes)
Genetic height does not seem to correlate with genetic IQ between populations, only within populations.
Now some low IQ countries are short because their IQs were lowered by malnutrition, but I doubt that’s true in North/West Europe, and that’s not the cause of the height-IQ correlation within populations which is genetic not nutrition
Yes I know that, that’s why I ask you to do it only for Whites
To be clear, what I ask you is to make a table which could answer to these type of questions:
What IQ should we expected from a White male/female of [heights in cm] ?
Cale, I think that’s a good idea. I’ll post that this month for sure!
If you observe whites in America it is pretty obvious that there is a divide
Wealthy whites living in high cost of living areas like Manhattan, most of them born from generations of wealth and luxury are not only taller but extremely good looking compared to poor whites.
This is due to generations of selective mating, and the only way for women to get access into the gene pool is to have great beauty as well as height while being white. For men to get in they simply need 200k+ income (typical wall street bankster salary.
Somehow this selective mating seems to have produced white elites that are on average 6′ or over.
While I would estimate poor country whites to average 5′ 10″ or 5′ 9″.
Forgot to add an exception rich secular manhattan Jews seem to average 5′ 8″ but they have their own Jewish gene pool.
So there is some evidence for why height would have a tiny correlation with intelligence other than malnorishment
Wealthy whites living in high cost of living areas like Manhattan, most of them born from generations of wealth and luxury are not only taller but extremely good looking compared to poor whites.
This is due to generations of selective mating, and the only way for women to get access into the gene pool is to have great beauty as well as height while being white. For men to get in they simply need 200k+ income (typical wall street bankster salary.
If this is true, it’s like the caste system in India.
Smart people are taller because some genes which can increase height also increas brain size.
Just to complet your explanation.
Wow, sociopathy+high IQ=the superior being.
So the kid who was with Matt, isn’t particularly smart if I understand ?