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> It could also discourage hiring practices that arbitrarily and counter-productively weed out the less-well-IQ’ed. Affirmative action for the stupid? > This
by 0xfeba 8y ago
> It could also discourage hiring practices that arbitrarily and counter-productively weed out the less-well-IQ’ed.
Affirmative action for the stupid?
> This might even redound to employers’ benefit: Whatever advantages high intelligence confers on employees, it doesn’t necessarily make for more effective, better employees.
Uh-huh. Sure, it doesn't necessarily make for it, but it's a good indicator.
It really did read like it was written by a Luddite.
- andrei_says_ 8y agoPlease define stupid? My dentist is stupidly inept at front-end development, a dancer is stupid at math, a front-end dev may suck at accounting. Which one of them is stupid?
- civilian 8y agoStupidity is general slowness in learning. If someone is not good at _anything_ then it's a good bayesian guess to say they're stupid. If someone has high-achievement in one or more specialities it's safe to say they're smart. [edit: Feel free to explain the downvotes! I understand the parent-comment was arguing for a "there are different types of intelligence" kind of theory, but I do think that the "aggregate smartness" is more useful/correct. Think of the smart people you know-- aren't they often kind of polymaths? And even things they're new to, they kind of pick up fast? And think of the really stupid people you know--- don't they kind of suck of everything?]
- lordCarbonFiber 8y agoProbably all 3 if they lacked the introspection to avoid interviewing for positions in dev work, math, and accounting respectively. Competence (which is probably closer to what society is increasingly valuing as opposed to intelligence) is always context dependent (although society has also generally respected the idea of the accomplished generalist, see the idea of the Renaissance Man).
- woodlumhoodlum 8y agoAll 3 (says the back-end dev)
- facetube 8y agoSolid laugh here, thank you
- andrei_says_ 8y agoAs a full-stack dev I concur. Trying to do front-dev these days is not an intelligent choice.
- traek 8y agoStupid in this context was pretty clearly defined in the article as low-IQ. You're describing skilled vs unskilled.
- facetube 8y agoAnd that was the entire point of the article. IQ is not a direct measure of skill in all arbitrary domains, yet skill is valuable to society in many of those domains.
- 0xfeba 8y agoIs your dentist applying for front-end development positions when he has no business doing it? Then he's stupid.
- thanatropism 8y agoI've seen a statistician (and not one with advanced degrees, just a bachelors and years of experience with SAS) become a kick ass front end dev in the last few weeks. I'm betting front end devs have a harder time becoming statisticians. There was this essay by pg where he called this concept "upwind".