Manfred comments on Intelligence as a bad - Less Wrong

2 Post author: PhilGoetz 25 April 2012 04:55PM

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 26 April 2012 03:39:37AM 0 points [-]

lifetime earnings top out around IQ130 IIRC.

Comment author: Manfred 26 April 2012 04:05:22AM 4 points [-]

A quick search doesn't support this. That's from the interesting post here, data from a longitudinal study starting in the 1930s.

Comment author: gwern 26 April 2012 04:46:03PM 2 points [-]

It is worth noting that that paper shows that IQ never stops mattering but it does stop mattering as much after the 130s, and personality traits become much more important, which is also somewhat true for scientific achievement.

Comment author: John_D 01 May 2013 06:27:26PM 0 points [-]

Based on that link, I was a little surprised that openness decreases income. Considering its correlation with crystallized knowledge, I would have expected no effect or a positive one.

Comment author: gwern 01 May 2013 07:44:15PM 0 points [-]

If you broke it down by occupation, I'd guess the effect is coming from Openness driving people to careers that are paid less in cash and more in novelty or thinking.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 26 April 2012 06:14:06AM 0 points [-]

thanks. +4SD earned 15-20% more. That's quite a lot.