I... I wouldn't give IQ that much credit.
   I've known people with IQ 180+ - mensa friends - that have very
   detailed, logical and thorough outlines proving things like
   conspiracies, chemtrails, anti-vax... ok, maybe not anti-vax.

   Still though, all it takes is one false step and all that "extra
   intelligence" goes to follow the wrong path.

   Someone who is literal can sometimes see things far more
   clearly. By literal, I mean a straightforward, naive logic
   (naive as it 'doesn't have the benefit of education, not naive
   as in "ignorant"). Says this, but looks like that, must be that.
   Children can often cut through the bullshit and straight
   through. Children can also try to fly and fall on their heads.
   Adults too. Not much differences.

   I wouldn't give IQ much credit. It's good for what it's good
   for, typically the ability to manipulate multi-dimensional
   objects in the mind, a trait men are typically better at than
   women, which made the IQ test flawed from the start, but what
   they knew in 1925 was different than what we know in 2015. We've
   learned a lot in 90 years since the Stanford Binet thing.