Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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26 published records
01 / disagreement
“Bryan Caplan thinks it’s about 80 percent signaling. I disagree with him, but that’s a number, right?”
02 / uncertainty
“A person is an individual, which is a very big deal because I don’t know what the average level of conscientiousness is for college graduates versus not.”
03 / belief
“One thing that’s so striking is how much organizational cultures tend to replicate themselves, how much you can come in with a very different attitude and aspiration, and you end up norming to the norms of the organization. And I think that probably is applicable in police departments.”
04 / belief
“How’s the market side of that? I think the institutional factors are really, really important to understand.”
05 / belief
“I think the word “require” is doing a lot of work there, Tyler. By that definition, 75 percent of admin assistant jobs require a bachelor’s degree even though two-thirds of admin assistants don’t have a bachelor’s degree.”
06 / belief
“I think if you’re an employer looking to hire someone, the best test of conscientiousness is how they do at the job they’re in.”
07 / belief
“I think a big thing that Maryland and Governor Hogan did — and he and I were there announcing this together, but he really focused on, “We see your talent, we see your skills, we want it.”
08 / belief
“I think that on top of it, given so much of it is economics and gender expectations being what they are, that probably does hit men harder.”
09 / belief
“I think that would be a far superior — or rather, not as a replacement for higher education because, again, pluralism matters.”
10 / belief
“You think of Western Governors University, which is an example of filling a market. It’s a nonprofit, but it’s been growing by I think 10 percent, 15 percent a year since it was founded.”
11 / observation
“There are so many different ways, but the point is you should screen in based on skills, not screen out based on pedigree.”
12 / belief
“I think the argument that institutions are self-interested is not as much of an insult as some people give it credit.”
13 / belief
“Now, you think conscientiousness is quite important. I agree with that. I also see in the literature from personality psychology, the big five personality traits — they don’t change that much over time.”
14 / belief
“On the one hand, I think hiring managers tend to know better what they need, but they may not be as thoughtful about the interview.”
15 / belief
“I think a lot of this is a second-order distraction because what we actually need is more of the good thing, not just different ways of screening people out.”
16 / belief
“Look, I think the math says that if you were to anchor it in life expectancy, the issue is deaths of despair.”
17 / preference
“” There’s a lot to be said for that, but software development plus art, software development plus music — there’s really incredible value to having, if you will, orthogonal skill sets, hybrid skill sets because then you notice things other people don’t.”
18 / evaluation
“College right now is a signal of many things, but I think the statistics would say it’s a huge signal of affluence and generational wealth, being able to not only be prepared for the test to go into a selective college, and being able to complete it, having the social capital.”
19 / evaluation
“You cannot interview everybody, but if you’re screening out because, on average, you think people with a bachelor’s degree are better, therefore, you’re screening out millions of people who can do the job — well, that’s a terrible system.”
20 / evaluation
“I think one of the worst and least realistic depictions — and one of the most influential — was this show called Celebrity Apprentice.”
21 / evaluation
“People who have college degrees do make more than those without. But I think there’s something else besides learning in college and the signaling, which is, if you look at how these studies work, you’re typically measuring an income gap, let’s say, 10 years later.”
22 / recommendation
“I would say, in eldercare, paying people more would be a good start. That typically pays very poorly, so I think that should not be overlooked because it’s still a market.”
23 / evaluation
“The people from Choate didn’t start taking the SATs, but the SAT — even though it was a pretty terrible test at the time, it was better than nothing.”
24 / preference
“I think IQ is overrated and conscientiousness is underrated for the most part because people can learn new things, but as you know, learning can be uncomfortable.”
25 / prediction
“If 70 percent of new jobs in the 10 years to COVID were ones that employers said, “Oh, you need a bachelor’s degree,” but only 40 percent of American workers have a bachelor’s degree, well, then obviously, that math doesn’t work.”
26 / recommendation
“There was a Harvard Business Review, the big survey, Harvard Business School survey and Accenture, I think, that actually looked at attitudes about digital transformation.”