My hunch is that this is not true and in fact people who are very good at one thing are likely to be good at many things People who are narrow savants are unusual but stick out Hm. Possibly his idea holds for really really extreme cases or cases where the subject is odd.https://twitter.com/morganhousel/status/1110191230506450944 …
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It works for groups too. Imagine a typical workplace: they have a minimum standard of competence they require from employees, but limited money to pay in salaries. The only way they'll get employees who are highly desirable in one dimension is compromising on another dimension.
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So from the inside, an employee will perceive their coworkers have mostly the same "weighted sum" of smartness, conscientiousness, likeability and so on. People below can't get a job there, people above work for richer companies.
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As long as some of our attributes remains illegible, the market will be inefficient and we can hang out with better groups than we "deserve" at the cost of occasionally accepting people who don't "deserve" our company. A good trade-off.
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