Low conscientiousness yields greater levels of depression, higher levels of drug consumption, and high inclinations towards criminal behavior. People high in c

Low conscientiousness yields greater levels of depression, higher levels of drug consumption, and high inclinations towards criminal behavior. People high in conscientiousness tend to be more conservatism. These things are all measured in various psychological studies, but really none of it should be surprising because its been measured to death. Measured to the point of extreme precise prediction. Conscientiousness, one of the big 5, is concerned with rule oriented behavior, restraint, self-discipline, presence, and so forth. People who are more self-aware and rule oriented tend to be more physically fit, goal oriented, and are more likely to excel in their careers. They are also more likely to build strong lasting relationships as their speech and behaviors are more restrained. None of this has anything to do with intelligence. Of the big 5 the one most correlated with intelligence is "openness". Counter-intuitively, at least to me, conscientiousness is the less correlated with intelligence by as much as -0.27. That means there are many people who are extremely intelligent yet are sloppy drug using creeps not worth the time of day and cannot manage their personal finances to save their lives. Depressing and statically more likely to self identify as "liberal". This has a nice tie-in to development. Have you ever heard of developers wanting things to be "easy" and then their code looks like sloppy shit? But, but but... they seemed so smart in the interview and their resume is stellar, so what went wrong? Even more to the point are developers who need things to be easy, cannot build actual software without configuring tools to do it for them, and then using that experience (that quest for easy or fear of original explicitness) to gauge competence in others.