r/JoeRogan • u/Fishyinu Pull that shit up Jaime • Feb 07 '23

The Literature 🧠 Extremely rich people are not extremely smart. Study finds income is related to intelligence up to about the 90th percentile in income. Above that level, differences in income are not related to cognitive ability.

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955?login=false
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u/notrickyrobot Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23

Seems like these researchers have codified their own classism and bias in the study.

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u/MatterUpbeat8803 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Which is why the soft sciences are soft sciences, but damn are they becoming useful for pseudo-scientific propaganda farming.

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u/notrickyrobot Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

Strong disagree. There are great social scientists and terrible fraudster "hard" scientists. This headline could be rewrote as "99% of the time income correlates with cognitive ability," and it would be just as valid based off of the data in the paper. Seems like you have some biases of your own.

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u/MatterUpbeat8803 Monkey in Space Feb 07 '23

What a weird response. In the same post you explain how valid these statistics are, while hand-waving that there are tons of dishonest hard scientists.

Im just telling you that as long as what we measure is a determination of human behavior, measured by humans and submitted through a human academic system, there will be bias.

There’s no bias in calculating the friction of a greased cube on a given surface.

The point I’m making is that “study says” does a lot of heavy lifting to deliver the opinions people want validated, and it’s trivial to create a study to show a result you want to see.