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Re:The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners by ethanbond on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:56PM (#34656995)
> It's not a surprise that cognitive ability (the paper seems to define it as relatively close to classical IQ) is not highly correlated with earning ability or even value production for society.

Did you look at the same chart I did? It um, goes very obviously up and to the right. There's a ridiculously strong correlation, just not a linear one.

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Re:The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners by metacritic12 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @02:01PM (#34657053)
The correlation coefficient is actually about 0.23 according to the paper. It just looks really correlated when they bin it by deciles but that's a visual artefact.

If you plotted individual people in a scatter plot this is what 0.23 correlation looks like: http://www3.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/distribution/correlations/cor... i.e. you can barely tell any positive relationship visually.

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