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How does chasing prestige or avoiding work indicate "higher cognitive ability"?
by sublinear 4y ago
How does chasing prestige or avoiding work indicate "higher cognitive ability"?
- Avicebron 4y agoOr, how does one define "prestige"?
- harvey9 4y agoA professorship can be prestigious while paying less than the professor might be able to earn in industry.
- Nevermark 4y agoThe relationship of "higher cognitive ability" -> prestige and work avoidance, is not the same as the relationship from "prestige and avoiding work" -> "higher cognitive ability. If you turn around the direction of implication, you are not talking about the same thing. But more to point, smart people may avoid jobs by arranging high return passive (non-work/job) income, such as from investments, royalties, etc. Lots of smart people go into fields like mathematics where the work is interesting, success is rewarded with visibility in the field, and sometimes the public, but the pay is nothing like being a CEO.
- madaxe_again 4y agoThey looked at cognitive tests carried out when these men enrolled in the military, and then looked at what they are earning now - they don’t attempt to forecast cognitive ability from occupation or income level, they just show a correlation.