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It's kind of cool how it looks like you can improve your log hourly wage at the highest percentiles by forgetting maths if you have good social skills, or forge
by conistonwater 11y ago
It's kind of cool how it looks like you can improve your log hourly wage at the highest percentiles by forgetting maths if you have good social skills, or forgetting good social skills if you have good maths skills.
I've only skimmed the paper, but how do the "social skills" map onto what one would normally mean by the plain-English meaning of social skills? It seems to be some kind of composite of job description categories, which I'm not sure what that means exactly.
- Sven7 11y agoOne way to think about it is the ability to pick up the phone and get a meeting setup with anyone you want, potential customer, investor, engineering talent, supply chain vendor, Elon Musk etc. To get to that level, takes a lot of social skill. It's why CXO's get paid what they get paid.
- conistonwater 11y agoBut that's not how he seems to measure "social skill" component of an occupation in the paper.
- reagency 11y agoNot "forgetting" math, but working in a more-social lower-math job. Aka management and sales, not engineering. But anyway a huge amount of variation us being compressed into over/under 50th %ile. You can't read anything into an anysis like this, outside of the range of near-mode (average people) incomes and skill levels. A full economy analysis doesn't say much about people in the 80+%ile of skill level, which even a junior engineer or MBA is at.