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Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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Actually, I'm not convinced that we've managed to eliminate that hypothesis. The only group that gives me pause is accounting.
“Study finds graduates of programs that require colouring inside the lines do well at colouring inside the lines at work. “
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.
Generally speaking a PhD requires producing original research. Which 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.
I mean that's mostly true. Coming up with novel ideas and how to test them is a small (but critical) part of the job. Still I agree, you don't actually spend that much time on it.
Not a single hard science occupation in engineering or technical aspects? Yeah that's a shit biased study.
All of those sound structured backgrounds that apply fixed definitions and derivatives based on that. They lack a developed sense of creativity outside the rigidity of their domain and so, are pretty much biological LLMs after a decade of purposed training and instructions.