Where it gets fun is where he puts groups of students through an exercise with world governments and politics. He put all high scores in the same game, and they rapidly ended up in nuclear world wars that destroyed the earth, even after a "reset" to try again.
Meanwhile the groups of low scores together they resolved issues and formed world governments.
And then we look at the middle east crisis ... anyone want to guess on the scores for the participants there?
For some strange reason I am much happier with Obama on the red button than Bushie.
It's not necessarily hihg-RWAs who will lead us to this disaster. Much later in the book he controls for double-highs: people who score high on the RWA-scale and the social dominance scale. The group with no double-highs let 1.9 billion people die but didn't start a single war. The high-RWAs just couldn't bring themselves to lead, never mind cooperate.
When the double-highs were added to the mix, no nuclear holocaust occurred, but it was likely about to happen (if the simulation had lasted but another five minutes). Also, the elites actually cooperated, trying to maximize their positions. In cases where double-highs were not the chosen elite, they undermined authority and replaced it with theirs (except for one).
Moral of the story? Double-highs with high-RWA followers are greatly disastrous, solely high-RWAs are disastrous, and low-RWAs are much better at running the world.
Fun shit, this.