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.
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.
LizWhich 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.