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> It's not a surprise that cognitive ability (the paper seems to define it as relatively close to classical IQ) is not highly correlated with earning ability or
by ethanbond 4y ago
> It's not a surprise that cognitive ability (the paper seems to define it as relatively close to classical IQ) is not highly correlated with earning ability or even value production for society.
Did you look at the same chart I did? It um, goes very obviously up and to the right. There's a ridiculously strong correlation, just not a linear one.
- metacritic12 4y agoThe correlation coefficient is actually about 0.23 according to the paper. It just looks really correlated when they bin it by deciles but that's a visual artefact. If you plotted individual people in a scatter plot this is what 0.23 correlation looks like: http://www3.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/distribution/correlations/corr.html http://www3.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/distribution/correlations/cor... i.e. you can barely tell any positive relationship visually.