gwern comments on Shut Up And Guess - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Yvain 21 July 2009 04:04AM

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Comment author: jimmy 22 July 2009 02:20:11AM 1 point [-]

From personal experience, there seems to be a large variance in rationality even after conditioning on intelligence for those that have never had any 'formal' rationality training.

I'm not sure where exactly this comes from, but it would not surprise me if there was a large genetic component.