supersquirrelWorkers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds
Littrell noted the workers who participated in the study all came from highly educated backgrounds in HR, accounting, marketing and finance, had bachelor’s degrees and even PhDs, which shows the findings go beyond simply assessing the intelligence of the study participants.
Actually, I’m not convinced that we’ve managed to eliminate that hypothesis. The only group that gives me pause is accounting.
“Study finds graduates of programs that require colouring inside the lines do well at colouring inside the lines at work. “
All of those sound structured backgrounds that apply fixed definitions and derivatives based on that. They lack a developed sense of creativity outside the rigidity of their domain and so, are pretty much biological LLMs after a decade of purposed training and instructions.
Lvxferre [he/him]Additionally: it confuses intelligence with learning. Having a PhD is a sign of the later, not of the former.
A PhD is when you know everything about one specific rock on the beach, is how I put it. You know exactly where it is, all of its properties, and can go to it any time. Outside of that one rock, maybe a slightly above-average person, but nothing special.
Yup, pretty much. Someone who learnt all the bits and bobs of that rock; but that doesn’t mean the person has strong cognitive capabilities, not even to solve tasks related to that rock.
LizGenerally speaking a PhD requires producing original research. Which ass-tier PhDs are you referencing that only require learning?
Which ass-tier PhDs are you referencing that only require learning?
The sort of PhD that lands you a job in “HR, accounting, marketing and finance”, of course!
…okay, I’m being cheeky with the above. But serious now: 90% of research is learning. And the other 10% don’t really require you to be specially intelligent, they require you to be specially stubborn and methodological.
PhD is really mostly a proxy for how rich or educated your parents were. And rich people always score higher on general intelligence because they are better educated due to money.
No it doesn’t. You are confusing the ideal of a PhD with the reality.
Most PhDs are doing bland derivative safe stuff, to get their degree and get a job. Very few are doing anything legitimately original. And most of them won’t get a job in their field anyway. We have way too many PhDs because they are the cheap labor for teaching in the university systems.
Most of my cohort in grad school did not belong there, at a mid-level state school. Yeah, at elite schools you will be doing original research for sure, at most low/mid level programs (and there are a lot) most PhDs are just people with good grades killing time tying to figure out what they want out of life, and a PhD is a good way to do that for 5-10 years.
Mmm you know that’s I good point, I never even considered looking at mid or low tier programs when I was school shopping. Your point reminds me of Mike Israetel’s embarrassing doctorate that he likes to use as a kudgle. I could have done his dissertation without the typos and I am educated in a completely different field.
There are also a growing number of PhDs where you are paying for the degree rather than being funded. They are jokes. A lot of dumb people see PhD as a vanity thing.
empireOfLove2Not a single hard science occupation in engineering or technical aspects? Yeah that’s a shit biased study.
people in hard sciences aren’t getting jobs in HR dude.