AFAIK:
Patience/Ability to Delay Gratification >> Self-Efficacy > IQ & Conscientiousness
I was talking about the singularity with a ph.d. psychologist who'd just discovered the concept last night...and I brought up my opinions on Patience > IQ. Her line is that Patience >> IQ is as settled as that IQ is real. And she directed me to this guy, among the most respected psychologists in the world...who says:
The ability to delay gratification at age four is twice as good a predictor of later SAT scores as IQ.
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Sounds right
I expect this to be mostly true.
Is there evidence, though, that conscientiousness and ability to delay gratification are independent?
Also, what do you mean by "self-efficacy", if not the collection of traits that impacts "life results"?
Self-efficacy was defined first by Nathaniel Branden, then 2nd by Albert Bandura. It specifically means: The belief that you are competent. Bandura considers it a domain-specific belief. Branden thinks of it more in a general-life approach.
And how correlated are ability to delay gratification and IQ? Aren't most petty criminals low-IQ? Isn't crime the perfect example of short-sightedness and failure to delay gratification?
Correlation between Patience (Ability to Delay Gratification) and IQ is high (50%?) but not uber (90%).
I think that IQ and Conscientiousness are negatively correlated (see here).
This suggests that at best, patience and Conscientiousness are less than 50% correlated.
This suggests our public policy apparatus should encourage the advancement of these traits (patience, conscientiousness, IQ, confidence).
It appears to me we often encourage the opposite.
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