Why STEM should stay away from Humanities wallas. Here's an example. Consider this question: "Are more intelligent groups more likely to collaborate?" Was curious about this & found interesting research. Then I found out: Sociologists BOYCOTT this question. WTF. Why?

If you are a STEM graduate - this notion of boycotting a thesis would make no sense. Fundamental to scientific method is coming up with hypothesis and evaluating them. No hypothesis is off limits. But for Sociologists - IQ is not a valid variable and dangerous.

Every engineer reading this would be squinting by now. That doesn't sound like Science. It sounds like Politics & Motivated Reasoning masquerading as Science. It's not the topic (Sociology) that is uninteresting. To the contrary. Its the practitioners who are problematic.

Returning back to the question - it was empirically analyzed as a repeated Prisoner's Dillema game and there's a landmark meta analysis (Garett Jones’s 2008 paper, “Are Smarter Groups More Cooperative?”) that established correlation between SAT scores and collaboration:

@GarettJones thoughts?