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Comment author: gwern 04 September 2011 05:41:40PM 2 points [-]

Conscientiousness sounds like it might be a good topic.

A new citation I've worked in, the Terman study (only very intelligent children were used) discussed in http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/04/earnings-effects-of-personality.html - eyeballing it, going from 10th to 90th in Conscientiousness was worth $800,000 over a lifetime. More than a similar jump in IQ.

Comment author: jsalvatier 04 September 2011 05:58:41PM 0 points [-]

Very interesting. I am especially interested in this because I have recently acquired some artificial conscientiousness via habitual use of task lists.