John_D comments on Intelligence as a bad - Less Wrong

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

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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: 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.