tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post8488703209691881350..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: Intelligence, personality, and self-knowledgeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-27206047859882553712014-12-18T08:54:48.369+00:002014-12-18T08:54:48.369+00:00Hi this one is great and is really a good post. I ...Hi this one is great and is really a good post. I think it will help me a lot in the related stuff and is very much useful for me. Very well written I appreciate & must say good job..<br /><a href="http://www.onlychildproject.com/" rel="nofollow">Only Child Personality</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08945016623289444607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-17317091840523196282014-12-10T13:06:18.400+00:002014-12-10T13:06:18.400+00:00Helpful information has been given in this article...Helpful information has been given in this article.<br /><b><a href="http://www.onlychildproject.com/" rel="nofollow">Only Child Traits</a></b>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232100333100832758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-62580446384350510952013-11-04T04:15:41.931+00:002013-11-04T04:15:41.931+00:00" It would seem that being brighter than aver..." It would seem that being brighter than average goes together with having an agreeable and conscientious attitude."<br /><br />Hmmmph. As a member of Mensa, and having scored a mere 1 point away from qualifying for Intertel, I believe I have some subject matter expertise. Or, at least, subject matter experience. I do not see that high intelligence is either (more than modestly) predictive of either social "agreeableness", or what I would take to be the presumed corollary: success. <br /><br />However, the correlation might indeed be the case, between the ages of 11 and 18, when social agreeableness has a much higher individual payoff, and individual expression is still subsumed to a large degree. <br /><br />Frankly, I must class myself as one of those who mistrust the lumping together of all those social factors into a single scale. No more than I believe that mental ability IQ is the final arbiter of ability measures. My brother, for instance, was a football wizard, with an extremely high physical "IQ" ability - an ability I could only dream of. But I can think circles around him. <br /><br />Still, I have just "run across" your postings/blog - and they are very interesting. Keep up the good work. CrowBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05707306908566476950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-42484040200161038392013-07-16T19:13:42.950+01:002013-07-16T19:13:42.950+01:00Thank you for this interesting reference. In point...Thank you for this interesting reference. In point of fact Caroline Just was writing just at the time that Rushton and Irwing were writing, so we probably need a later paper, though the studies used were already published in both cases. More significantly, the criticism of the general factor (which I have also heard personally from distinguished personality researchers) is that it represents a social desirability effect. It was precisely for that reason I was impressed with the study by Curt using objective assessors. That gets rid of social desirability effects. I really think there is something there. We should drop self report and use observer ratings.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-46344714310242388942013-07-16T10:21:29.346+01:002013-07-16T10:21:29.346+01:00Don't know about that, but one could probably ...Don't know about that, but one could probably derive an answer by finding out if there were big five personality differences between the happily and long married on one hand, and the unhappily and short married on the other hand. Also interesting to look at the personality of the never married.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-32704345410043925712013-07-15T22:25:35.302+01:002013-07-15T22:25:35.302+01:00I will have to read up on this, but isn't it a...I will have to read up on this, but isn't it an established fact that the big five are given by independent normal distributions? If this is true, is it possible to reconcile this fact with a general factor of personality? <br /><br />Here is a literature review: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911000110<br /><br />Seems very impressive. I thought gfp was just a speculative fringe theory.endre bakken stovnerhttp://nope.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-53920346029548666412013-07-15T20:41:55.747+01:002013-07-15T20:41:55.747+01:00"Individuals high on the General Factor of Pe..."Individuals high on the General Factor of Personality are ..." good spouses and parents? Just wondering. Do they always marry, even?<br /><br />deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-45488700785083466682013-07-15T18:28:22.589+01:002013-07-15T18:28:22.589+01:00IQ 145 is 3 sigma, so at 1 in a thousand you have ...IQ 145 is 3 sigma, so at 1 in a thousand you have very high intelligence. However, although IQ is an excellent predictor it accounts for (very roughly) about a third of the variance in life outcomes. There have been many proposals at to what accounts for the rest of the variance, but surprisingly little in the way of supportive evidence. Personality, social class, personal attractiveness, motivation..... endless suggestions. Advances in genetics may make the picture clearer, but most of us already know that many of our personal characteristics probably have an impact, sometimes negatively. Anxiety certainly seems to damage talent, if only by reducing confidence and commitment to necessary practice. Linda Gottfredson calls the highest 5% IQ band "Yours to lose". Sometimes we lose it, and don't know why.<br />By the way, late middle age is when many people decide to turn to long-postponed projects. A friend of mine became a best selling novelist in her sixties. Might be premature in your case to draw too many conclusions just yet.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-61877754520359269932013-07-15T16:32:50.259+01:002013-07-15T16:32:50.259+01:00People who write about IQ tend to agree it's a...People who write about IQ tend to agree it's a excellent predictor of life outcomes. But what about when it's not? What other factors are there? <br /><br />I'm fairly high IQ (circa 145), late middle age, with fairly poor life outcomes. I'm an anxious introvert with a checkered employment history and few and poor relationships. I have an older brother and sister with at least as high IQs and even poorer outcomes on some measures. Our father was (is) an anxious introvert with a high IQ (hard science PhD) and a drinking problem. I'm proud that I at least don't have the drinking problem. <br /><br />From the kids I knew in gifted classes I would say this is usually true- they came from nice stable families and have had nice lives. I can think of a couple of exceptions besides myself, but they come from known or suspected bad family situations also. I suspect being intelligent is good, but if you come from a bad family situation, it frequently makes things worse. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com