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It takes less effort to interview three times as many people as it does to turn a mediocre performer into a star.
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Did the hereditarians score an own goal ? Big 5 personality is much more predictive when assessed by others, rather than self assessed. Conscientiousness becomes a better predictor of job performance than IQ and the B-W gap on Big 5 traits is much, much smaller than on IQ. https://t.co/aXnPFQv5D8
Only the best researchers in a field actually make progress, and the best researchers are already in a field, and probably couldn’t be kept out of the field with barbed wire and attack dogs. If you expand a field, you will get a bunch of merely competent careerists who treat it as a 9-to-5 job. A field of 5 truly inspired geniuses and 5 competent c... See more
Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Is Science Slowing Down?
People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
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New replicated, pre-registered finding on IQ and moral foundations: Higher IQ individuals care less about harm and equality and are less loyal, more disobedient, less pure. g works its effects by lowering individualizing and "binding". (open access link below)
Seeing people clearly—or at least more clearly—matters not just when finding the “best” hire, but in identifying the best role for them. Even looking at those of us who are lucky enough to have a high degree of choice about what we do with our work, I’ll bet that as few as 20% of us are in the seat that best optimizes our talents and skills at any ... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
Finding up-and-coming people is a very important component of hiring. Technology executive and investor Keith Rabois has a good saying: “Hire geniuses no one knows yet.” My version is: “Hire people who are hungry and can teach us something.”
Eric Jorgenson • The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
For a summary of the research on particular types of experts, see Andre Didierjean and Gobet Fernand, “Sherlock Holmes—An Expert’s View of Expertise,” British Journal of Psychology 99 (2008): 109.