Thanks for your comment and for listing those traits and skills; I strongly agree that those are all useful qualities. :)
One might argue that willingness to do grunt work, taking initiative, and mental stamina all belong in a broader “drive/conscientiousness” category, but I think they are in any case important and meaningfully distinct traits worth highlighting in their own right.
Likewise, one could perhaps argue that “ability to network well” falls under a broader category of “social skills”, in which interpersonal kindness and respect might also be said to fall (as a somewhat distinct trait or ability, cf. the cognitive vs. affective empathy distinction; networking ability probably draws more strongly on cognitive empathy while [genuine] interpersonal kindness probably relies more on affective empathy). A related trait one could list in that category is skill in perspective-taking.
Regarding the correlation point, I agree that IQ is likely correlated with many of the traits I listed, but I don’t believe that this is a strong reason to think that we are not overemphasizing IQ relative to these other traits. Moreover, as noted in another comment, a reason to focus more on these other traits relative to IQ at the level of what we seek to develop individually and incentivize collectively is that many of these other traits and skills probably are more elastic and improvable than is IQ.
As for how many of these traits are correlated significantly with IQ, it’s worth noting that — beyond “being driven” and “interpersonal kindness” — myside bias (also) appears to show “very little relation to intelligence”. And I likewise doubt that IQ has much of a correlation with a willingness to face unpleasant and inconvenient conclusions, or resistance to signaling-related distortions. (Some relevant albeit weak and indirect evidence regarding IQ and signaling-related distortions — specifically when it comes to distortions due to partisan/tribal loyalties — is that greater knowledge of political matters, which is presumably a decent proxy of IQ, does not seem to improve people’s ability to provide an accurate representation of the opposite side’s views, even when subjects are given a financial incentive.)
Thanks for your comment and for listing those traits and skills; I strongly agree that those are all useful qualities. :)
One might argue that willingness to do grunt work, taking initiative, and mental stamina all belong in a broader “drive/conscientiousness” category, but I think they are in any case important and meaningfully distinct traits worth highlighting in their own right.
Likewise, one could perhaps argue that “ability to network well” falls under a broader category of “social skills”, in which interpersonal kindness and respect might also be said to fall (as a somewhat distinct trait or ability, cf. the cognitive vs. affective empathy distinction; networking ability probably draws more strongly on cognitive empathy while [genuine] interpersonal kindness probably relies more on affective empathy). A related trait one could list in that category is skill in perspective-taking.
Regarding the correlation point, I agree that IQ is likely correlated with many of the traits I listed, but I don’t believe that this is a strong reason to think that we are not overemphasizing IQ relative to these other traits. Moreover, as noted in another comment, a reason to focus more on these other traits relative to IQ at the level of what we seek to develop individually and incentivize collectively is that many of these other traits and skills probably are more elastic and improvable than is IQ.
As for how many of these traits are correlated significantly with IQ, it’s worth noting that — beyond “being driven” and “interpersonal kindness” — myside bias (also) appears to show “very little relation to intelligence”. And I likewise doubt that IQ has much of a correlation with a willingness to face unpleasant and inconvenient conclusions, or resistance to signaling-related distortions. (Some relevant albeit weak and indirect evidence regarding IQ and signaling-related distortions — specifically when it comes to distortions due to partisan/tribal loyalties — is that greater knowledge of political matters, which is presumably a decent proxy of IQ, does not seem to improve people’s ability to provide an accurate representation of the opposite side’s views, even when subjects are given a financial incentive.)