Agreement karma indicates agreement, separate from overall quality.
The smartest people tend to be ambitious.
If this is anecdotal, wouldn’t it be easily explained by some sort of selection bias? Smart ambitious people are much visible than smart, definitely-not-ambitious people (and by definition of “smart”, they have probably better chances at succeeding in their ambitions than equally ambitious less smart people).
Anecdotally, I have met some relatively smart people who are not very ambitious, and I can imagine there could be much smarter people one does not meet except by random chance, because they do not have much ambition. Also anecdotally, I would not be surprised if not-so-ambitious smart people would be content with a “default”, probably mildly successful career path and opportunities for a person like them tend to find.
5 votes
Overall karma indicates overall quality.
0 votes
Agreement karma indicates agreement, separate from overall quality.
If this is anecdotal, wouldn’t it be easily explained by some sort of selection bias? Smart ambitious people are much visible than smart, definitely-not-ambitious people (and by definition of “smart”, they have probably better chances at succeeding in their ambitions than equally ambitious less smart people).
Anecdotally, I have met some relatively smart people who are not very ambitious, and I can imagine there could be much smarter people one does not meet except by random chance, because they do not have much ambition. Also anecdotally, I would not be surprised if not-so-ambitious smart people would be content with a “default”, probably mildly successful career path and opportunities for a person like them tend to find.