Unrelated question: Is there a good book for us laypeople on the Big 5 personality traits/dimensions (like agreeableness, etc)?
Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
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Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh that sounds reasonable but I’m not sure it holds for the NBA. Maybe the college game where the overall skill level and stakes are lower. The flaw in that reasoning is it assumes that players stop developing once they reach the league. Especially in the modern NBA, where players are pushed very hard to get out from the post and shoot. Being unable to shoot puts a limit on a players career, even at 7+ feet. There’s…
17% of Americans that are over 7' are or have been in the NBA. They only need to be better than a few dozen or hundreds of others at the required skills. The average 7 footer in the NBA is a way better shooter than the average player in the general population and probably better than any average college player. But shooting skill is inversely proportional to height in the NBA for the exact reason the GP stated. To be…
unless you are Rajon Rondo and your floor general skills are so good that you can get into the NBA while shooting 60% (considered very low) from the charity stripe.
Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...
Can any HNers vouch for this add-on? Is there any compromise for privacy?
Looks like the source is here https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... if you want to check it yourself.
Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#44> “In fact, the only people who should feel imposter syndrome are the ones whose strongest skill is selling themselves. But since selling yourself entails some self-deception, they are, naturally, the ones who think they’re surrounded by lazy idiots.”
Sounds like a certain entrepreneur who bought a social media site he didn’t actually want anymore, and now is asking everyone to work extra hardcore.
Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#45I know a dude who did the drugs part of Steve Jobs. Almost lost his mind, and didn't come out any smarter from that phase.
Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#46The phenomenon described in the article is well known as "Berkson's paradox": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
Seems to be what's affecting women most of the time.
"You can't be hot and a security specialist!"
Just because the average women takes more care of herself than the average man.
Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#47Regarding hot/crazy: if you try dating in a heavily fished (heavily sorted) environment like online dating, a person of modest looks (me) is likely to meet highly attractive persons only if they have some flaw that keeps them ‘in circulation’
On the other hand, meeting more attractive persons in real life proved much less biased. YMMV
All that said, very attractive persons can go a little crazy from the stares and clumsy approaches that follow them everywhere they go. To the point that they avoid public places like coffee shops or feel uneasy about going to the grocery store or even to work. So don’t do those things its not nice
Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#48There's an interesting geometric interpretation that this implies: The specific scenario they're modeling here, where a bunch of samples with correlated properties x and y are clustered by x + y , essentially takes a strip of datapoints that are distributed over a diagonally-oriented rectangle, and then cuts it into a series of shorter strips, by cutting at thresholds (lines where x+y=n) that run along the opposite d…
Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#49It's a great article and there is probably a lot of truth to it but I suspect people who are constantly told how great they are are actually more likely to be jerks. I don't think beauty / intelligence are entirely uncorrelated with niceness to begin with.
Here’s a thought, it’s possible to be disagreeable without being ignorant of the fact or malicious. Being blunt or assertive can be misinterpreted as being mean but meanness involves some intent to harm.
You might choose to ignore how what you're about to say will make someone feel, because in your mind you know you don't mean ill, but that won't change the outcome. Ignoring how you're about to make someone feel is still consequential. In other words, you can be right and still an asshole.
Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
#50Regarding hot/crazy: if you try dating in a heavily fished (heavily sorted) environment like online dating, a person of modest looks (me) is likely to meet highly attractive persons only if they have some flaw that keeps them ‘in circulation’ On the other hand, meeting more attractive persons in real life proved much less biased. YMMV All that said, very attractive persons can go a little crazy from the stares and cl…
> So don’t do those things its not nice
Advice like this makes the situation worse, because nice people will take your advice and not approach extremely attractive women, because they understand it is the nice thing to do, but assholes will approach extremely attractive women, because they don't care about being nice. So these women end up only being approached by bad actors.