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

74 Post author: Yvain 12 July 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: knb 11 July 2012 03:06:17PM *  10 points [-]

Using the term over-simplified was my attempt at generosity. As presently stated, your claim is entirely wrong. Intelligence is the single best predictor of job performance for all but the most narrowly-focused manual tasks, see for example Ree & Earles, Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 1, No. 3 (Jun., 1992), pp. 86-89.

The strong claim you made in your original comment was entirely false, and I get the impression you were just speculating wildly about something you don't actually know much about.

Comment author: AndyC 22 April 2014 05:30:05PM *  2 points [-]

It's important to note that employers are not seeking to maximize employee performance. They're seeking to maximize the difference between the value provided by the employee and the wage provided to the employee.