Personality and politics of 263 occupations
Recently, I wrote about a great study showing the intelligence and crude personality differences between 300+ jobs. There is now a replication of this using a set of 263 occupations…
Recently, I wrote about a great study showing the intelligence and crude personality differences between 300+ jobs. There is now a replication of this using a set of 263 occupations…
The feminist movement can be seen as a reaction of egalitarians against then prevailing views about women vs. men, that viewed men in a too favorable light for their tastes.…
About a month ago this very interesting paper was published: Wolfram, T. (2023). (Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits. Intelligence, 98,…
Given the interest in the recent estimates of Scott Alexander's, Gwern's etc. IQs on Twitter, I thought it might be informative and entertaining to carry out a real survey (defined…
Men constitute the vast majority of the fighting power of a country. When women make inroads by political forcing, the results are often comical or disturbing, depending on your level…
Most people know that political opinions are related to which job people are in. But which exactly? While there are many ways to quantify this, two teams looked at donations…
Now that the video is up, here's some other studies I came across. Falkenberg, L. (1990). Improving the accuracy of stereotypes within the workplace. Journal of Management, 16(1), 107-118. Has…
The theory seems obvious: since stereotypes are just beliefs about groups, having more accurate stereotypes would be expected to be related to intelligence, just as having more accurate beliefs on…
I was doing some work on my first name study preparing it for publication and was reading some old papers. McDavid, J. W., & Harari, H. (1966). Stereotyping of names…
Eric Turkheimer is by many counts a good scientist. He has about 11.6k citations on Google Scholar, 6.3 since 2013 (i.e. last 5 years). He is prominent enough that he…