Aretae

The virtue of excellence

Friday, June 8, 2012

Theory oTW

IQ is positively correlated with both bias and belief that one is unbiased.  Paul Krugman must be pretty damn smart.  And of course, some of the blogosphere's best thinkers on the topic of self-deception are all over this:
Hanson.  Falkenstein.  Read 'em all.  Fits my experience very well.


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5 comments:

Orphan said...

I suspect that if you substituted the word "heuristic" in for "bias" in all cases and repeated the study - in these circumstances they mean the same thing - you'd get radically different results.

It'd surprise me if smarter people didn't exhibit -more- bias, in point of fact. The more ways you shortcut knowledge, the more ways you can potentially go wrong.

June 8, 2012 at 10:57 AM
kx59 said...

"The smartest guys in the room"
From what I've observed, being a bottom feeder in the "smart" range is that the truly "smart" test their bias by posing thoughts in blog posts such as this.
Krugman is a socialist Keynesian loon.
How's that for bias?

June 8, 2012 at 4:45 PM
Starling said...

"This accords with my own long-held view -- and so is obviously correct! The more intelligent a person is, the more expertly they can rationalize their beliefs. Surely one major mark of true posthumans will be that this no longer applies." --Max Moore

I've said this for YEARS!

June 11, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Starling said...

Well, not the part about post-humans. :)

June 11, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Starling said...

"This accords with my own long-held view -- and so is obviously correct! The more intelligent a person is, the more expertly they can rationalize their beliefs. Surely one major mark of true posthumans will be that this no longer applies." --Max Moore

I've said this for YEARS!

June 11, 2012 at 4:15 PM

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