As the volunteers talked, a panel of psychologists judged their reasoning and weakness to bias: whether it was a rounded argument, whether the candidates were ready to admit the limits of their knowledge – their “intellectual humility” – and whether they were ignoring important details that didn’t fit their theory. In one experiment, Grossmann presented his volunteers with different social dilemmas – ranging from what to do about the war in Crimea to heartfelt crises disclosed to Dear Abby, the Washington Post’s agony aunt.
“But if you look at the lay definition of wisdom, many people would agree it’s the idea of someone who can make good unbiased judgement.” “The concept of wisdom has an ethereal quality to it,” he admits. His approach is more scientific that it might at first sound. So if intelligence doesn’t lead to rational decisions and a better life, what does? Igor Grossmann, at the University of Waterloo in Canada, thinks we need to turn our minds to an age-old concept: “wisdom”. The more enlightened approach would be to leave your assumptions at the door as you build your argument – but Stanovich found that smarter people are almost no more likely to do so than people with distinctly average IQs. Consider the “my-side bias” – our tendency to be highly selective in the information we collect so that it reinforces our previous attitudes. Keith Stanovich at the University of Toronto has spent the last decade building tests for rationality, and he has found that fair, unbiased decision-making is largely independent of IQ. The harsh truth, however, is that greater intelligence does not equate to wiser decisions in fact, in some cases it might make your choices a little more foolish. “Maybe they were problem-solving a bit more than most people,” he says – which might help them to learn from their mistakes. It’s not necessarily a disadvantage, though. He speculates that greater eloquence might also make you more likely to verbalise anxieties and ruminate over them. On May 24th, YouTuber GIFs With Sound 2 uploaded a montage of "Wasted" GIFs (shown below).Probing more deeply, Penney found that this seemed to correlate with verbal intelligence – the kind tested by word games in IQ tests, compared to prowess at spatial puzzles (which, in fact, seemed to reduce the risk of anxiety). On May 14th, Smosh highlighted several notable "Wasted" animated GIFs. On May 11th, YouTuber mari cano uploaded a similar montage of "real life wasted" FAIL videos (shown below, right). In the first four months, the video gained over 200,000 views and 280 comments. On May 9th, YouTuber Szczery Jerry uploaded a video titled "Wasted in real life," featuring a montage of FAIL videos with the Grand Theft Auto death screen (shown below, left). On April 25th, CollegeHumor published a compilation of notable "Wasted" GIFs.
On January 8th, 2014, the /r/wastedgifs subreddit was launched, highlighting animated GIFs edited with the Grand Theft Auto death screen display (shown below). The same death screen is used in Grand Theft Auto V. Starting with Grand Theft Auto IV, the death screen showed the player dying in slow motion against a black-and-white filter, followed by the message "Wasted" displayed in red text.
Starting in Grand Theft Auto III and continuing with the sequals Vice City and San Andreas, the "Wasted" message is displayed by panning away from the character aerially (shown below, right). Upon death in Grand Theft Auto 2, the death screen features the "Wasted" text along with an announcer cheerfully saying the expression (shown below, left). As the player character faces death, the message will appear, followed by a groan noise while the camera zooms in on the deceased player. The "Wasted" death screen first appeared in the original Grand Theft Auto game released in 1997.
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