NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 28 March 2012 04:23:45PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps economic returns to IQ as so low because there are other skills which are good for getting economic returns, and those skills don't correlate strongly with IQ.

Comment author: gwern 28 March 2012 04:44:40PM *  2 points [-]

Yes, this is consistent with the large income changes seen with some of the personality traits. If you have time, you could check the paper to see if that explains it: perhaps the highest cohort disproportionately went into academia or was low on Extraversion or something, or those subsets were entirely responsible for the excess patents.