As far as I know, there’s no correlation between g and niceness/forgiveness/etc.. Just bringing up the most immediate study on the topic I can think of (not necessarily the best), this study finds a correlation of approximately zero (-0.06) between being nice (Agreeableness) and IQ (ICAR):
I could make up various possible explanations for why you’d see this effect, but I don’t know enough about your life to know which ones are the most accurate.
Thanks for the information. I think the problem here is that my notion of “being nice” doesn’t correlate that well with “agreeableness”, since I find it quite difficult to believe that “niceness” in my sense actually has no correlation with general intelligence.
Still, the correlation I would expect between my own notion and g is ~ 0.2 or so, which is still quite a bit less than the correlation I think I observe.
As far as I know, there’s no correlation between g and niceness/forgiveness/etc.. Just bringing up the most immediate study on the topic I can think of (not necessarily the best), this study finds a correlation of approximately zero (-0.06) between being nice (Agreeableness) and IQ (ICAR):
I could make up various possible explanations for why you’d see this effect, but I don’t know enough about your life to know which ones are the most accurate.
Thanks for the information. I think the problem here is that my notion of “being nice” doesn’t correlate that well with “agreeableness”, since I find it quite difficult to believe that “niceness” in my sense actually has no correlation with general intelligence.
Still, the correlation I would expect between my own notion and g is ~ 0.2 or so, which is still quite a bit less than the correlation I think I observe.
Why doesn’t your notion of being nice correlate that well with B5 Agreeableness?