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Robin Hanson would agree

Bruce Charlton, Professor of Theoretical Medicine at Buckingham and Editor in Chief of Medical Hypotheses, asks “Why are modern scientists so dull?” In a nutshell, I am suggesting that: Educational attainment depends on IQ × C [conscientiousness]; but IQ and C are not closely-correlated. Modern education has progressively raised the floor for C (by lengthening the educational process and by changes in educational evaluation methods). Educational attainment therefore nowadays increasingly re

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This post was written by Career Training on August 11, 2009 Comments (0)

In defense of those “dull” scientists

The other day, Chad at Uncertain Principles linked to a very odd argument on the site Medical Hypotheses : “Why are modern scientists so dull? How science selects for perseverance and sociability at the expense of intelligence and creativity”, by Bruce Charlton: Question: why are so many leading modern scientists so dull and lacking in scientific ambition? Answer: because the science selection process ruthlessly weeds-out interesting and imaginative people. At each level in education, trai

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This post was written by Career Training on June 24, 2009 Comments (0)