gjm 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: gjm 10 July 2012 07:20:07PM 2 points [-]

Some employers, for some jobs, care more about conscientiousness. If it's universally true that "employers in real life care more about conscientiousness" then I would be interested to see some evidence.

(Perhaps you didn't mean to claim that it's universally true, but only that it's true on average or something. In which case, fair enough.)

Comment author: [deleted] 11 July 2012 12:13:07AM 1 point [-]

Perhaps you didn't mean to claim that it's universally true, but only that it's true on average or something.

That's how I interpreted the parent.

Comment author: gjm 11 July 2012 12:02:04AM -2 points [-]

Dear whoever downvoted the above,

I regret that after some thought it remains unclear to me what you didn't like and what (if anything) I can or should do to improve. Would you care to offer some more informative feedback? Thanks.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 11 July 2012 06:02:34AM 2 points [-]

Uncharitably interpreting the parent would be my guess? (I didn't downvote it.)