wedrifid comments on What Is Signaling, Really? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Grognor 10 July 2012 06:12:46AM 12 points [-]

College degrees are better signals for conscientiousness than intelligence, which is no coincidence, since employers in real life care more about conscientiousness.

Comment author: wedrifid 10 July 2012 09:01:27AM 3 points [-]

College degrees are better signals for conscientiousness than intelligence, which is no coincidence, since employers in real life care more about conscientiousness.

Both those things are true but much of that could well be coincidental. Mechanisms for the distribution of prestige, status and affiliation are not always sane from the perspective of the system.