The application of variance, to the bundle of traits under the blanket label charisma (similar to the bundle of intelligence and results-acquisition under the blanket label thinkoomph), and the sociological implications of more socially powerful people being simultaneously more rare and also more capable of making the people around them erroneously feel safe, was a really interesting application that I picked up almost entirely from planecrash, yes.
I think that my “coordination takeoffs” post also ended up being a bad example for what you’re trying to gesture at here, I already know what I got wrong there and it wasn’t that (e.g. basically any China Watcher who reads and understands most of Inadequate Equilibria is on course towards the top of their field). Could you try a different example?
Ah, neat, thanks! I had never heard of that paper or the Conger-Kanungo scale, when I referred to charisma I intended it in the planecrash sense of charisma that’s focused on social dominance and subterfuge, rather than business management which is focused on leadership and maintaining the status quo which means something completely different and which I had never heard of.
The application of variance, to the bundle of traits under the blanket label charisma (similar to the bundle of intelligence and results-acquisition under the blanket label thinkoomph), and the sociological implications of more socially powerful people being simultaneously more rare and also more capable of making the people around them erroneously feel safe, was a really interesting application that I picked up almost entirely from planecrash, yes.
I think that my “coordination takeoffs” post also ended up being a bad example for what you’re trying to gesture at here, I already know what I got wrong there and it wasn’t that (e.g. basically any China Watcher who reads and understands most of Inadequate Equilibria is on course towards the top of their field). Could you try a different example?
Well, you wrote that “concept origin: planecrash”. Which of the concepts you mentioned originated from planecrash?
Measuring charisma has been done by psychologists using the Conger-Kanungo scale, and the original paper analysis the metric using a factor analysis.
Ah, neat, thanks! I had never heard of that paper or the Conger-Kanungo scale, when I referred to charisma I intended it in the planecrash sense of charisma that’s focused on social dominance and subterfuge, rather than business management which is focused on leadership and maintaining the status quo which means something completely different and which I had never heard of.