Statistical-flowers-for-algernon

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statistical-flowers-for-algernon

Title text: I think there's a reading of Flowers for Algernon where the truth is he's just fundamentally a dickhead and everyone else who gets the same treatment fails to have an existential crisis.

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Im going to give you a pill that'll double your intelligence.

Months later.

Now that you're smarter, I bet you're feeling more dissociated from society! More horrified by human limitation! More repulsed by the frailty of this tragic farce!

Thanks, doc!

Nah.

That's a literary myth. Suicide rate, for instance, is anti-correlated with I.Q. The best statistical evidence suggests greater intelligence increases happiness, cooperativeness, and productivity.

It also makes you annoying

It's nice to know you've read some of the lit-erature.

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I would pay good money to see this version of Flowers for Algernon

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