How does increasing “the marginal social status payoff from an increase in IQ” help? I’m not saying it would hurt, but it seems less direct and less important than increasing the marginal social status payoff from having and acting on unbiased beliefs about the world because this is something people can change fairly easily.
How does increasing “the marginal social status payoff from an increase in IQ” help?
The implication may be that persons with high IQ are often prevented from putting it to a meaningful use due to the way societies are structured: a statement I agree with.
persons with high IQ are often prevented from putting it to a meaningful use due to the way societies are structured.
Do you mean that organizations aren’t very good at selecting the best person for each job. I agree with that statement, but its about much, much, more than IQ. It is a tough nut to crack but I have given some thought to how we could improve honest signaling of people’s skills.
Do you mean that organizations aren’t very good at selecting the best person for each job.
Actually, no. What I mean is that human society isn’t very good at realizing that it would be in its best interest to assign as many high-IQ persons as possible the job of “being themselves” full-time and freely developing their ideas—without having to justify their short-term benefit.
Hell, forget “as many as possible”, we don’t even have a Bell Labs any more.
This, I think, is a special case of what I meant. A simple, crude, way to put the general point is that people don’t defer enough to those who are smarter. If they did, smart folks would be held in higher esteem by society, and indeed would consequently have greater autonomy.
That may well be right. I’m willing to accept that the distinction between “I.Q.” and other measures of “smartness” is orthogonal to the point I was making.
How does increasing “the marginal social status payoff from an increase in IQ” help? I’m not saying it would hurt, but it seems less direct and less important than increasing the marginal social status payoff from having and acting on unbiased beliefs about the world because this is something people can change fairly easily.
The implication may be that persons with high IQ are often prevented from putting it to a meaningful use due to the way societies are structured: a statement I agree with.
Do you mean that organizations aren’t very good at selecting the best person for each job. I agree with that statement, but its about much, much, more than IQ. It is a tough nut to crack but I have given some thought to how we could improve honest signaling of people’s skills.
Actually, no. What I mean is that human society isn’t very good at realizing that it would be in its best interest to assign as many high-IQ persons as possible the job of “being themselves” full-time and freely developing their ideas—without having to justify their short-term benefit.
Hell, forget “as many as possible”, we don’t even have a Bell Labs any more.
This, I think, is a special case of what I meant. A simple, crude, way to put the general point is that people don’t defer enough to those who are smarter. If they did, smart folks would be held in higher esteem by society, and indeed would consequently have greater autonomy.
How should society implement this? I repeat my claim that other personal characteristics are as important as IQ.
I do not know of a working society-wide solution. Establishing research institutes in the tradition of Bell Labs would be a good start, though.
That may well be right. I’m willing to accept that the distinction between “I.Q.” and other measures of “smartness” is orthogonal to the point I was making.