The opposite of Hanlon's Razor is something like "never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by not actually wanting to do the thing."
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aka "much apparent incompetence is actually covert resistance to the unwelcome demands of authorities."
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IQ test scores rise by 10 points when you give test-takers incentives. For people with <100 IQs, the average effect on IQ is 15 points. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/19/7716.full.pdf …
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Nonetheless, as Duckworth et al. say, "it is important not to overstate our conclusions. For all measured outcomes in Study 2, the predictive validity of intelligence remained statistically significant when controlling for the nonintellective traits underlying test motivation."
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yeah, this result doesn't disprove the hypothesis that there's a type of "intelligence" which doesn't vary with motivation and affects life outcomes.
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