It does seem important to understand the underlying scale dynamic. However, it’s still unclear to me how to evaluate this claim as it depends a lot on the underlying Thery of Impact for the impact scale. E.g., I’d imagine that it’d be more or less relevant depending on the role (e.g., it might hold more true for a researcher than a community-builder or coach). Practically, I’d also claim that a strong focus on IQ among existing HEAs are less valuable. I.e., the answer to “how can we best increase the expected impact of HEA?” is unlikely to involve things directly related to IQ. E.g., anecdotally, I can say things such as emotional stability (opposite of neuroticism) and concrete ways of increasing conscientiousness is likely much more likely to come up (if I restrain the search query to validated constructs).
We might already have such a scale with the proto-EA scale. Additionally, I think it’s valuable to look for other proxies for impact (e.g., having done impressive things like starting a non-profit at an early age).
Thanks. That paper does seem to propose correlations in the ballpark you’re suggesting although I haven’t had the time to think about to what extent I find this convincing.
I agree. Especially because our model of what’s impactful is likely to change quite substantially across time (5-10 years).
Thanks for the disclaimer.
It does seem important to understand the underlying scale dynamic. However, it’s still unclear to me how to evaluate this claim as it depends a lot on the underlying Thery of Impact for the impact scale. E.g., I’d imagine that it’d be more or less relevant depending on the role (e.g., it might hold more true for a researcher than a community-builder or coach). Practically, I’d also claim that a strong focus on IQ among existing HEAs are less valuable. I.e., the answer to “how can we best increase the expected impact of HEA?” is unlikely to involve things directly related to IQ. E.g., anecdotally, I can say things such as emotional stability (opposite of neuroticism) and concrete ways of increasing conscientiousness is likely much more likely to come up (if I restrain the search query to validated constructs).
We might already have such a scale with the proto-EA scale. Additionally, I think it’s valuable to look for other proxies for impact (e.g., having done impressive things like starting a non-profit at an early age).
Thanks. That paper does seem to propose correlations in the ballpark you’re suggesting although I haven’t had the time to think about to what extent I find this convincing.
I agree. Especially because our model of what’s impactful is likely to change quite substantially across time (5-10 years).