TY - JOUR
T1 - The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated
AU - Zisman, Chen
AU - Ganzach, Yoav
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - We conduct a replication of Borghans, Golsteyn, Heckman and Humphries (PNAS, 2016) who suggested that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes. We focus on the prediction of educational (educational attainment, GPA) and occupational (pay) success, and analyze two of the databases that BGHH used (the NLSY79, n = 5594 and the MIDUS, n = 2240) as well as four additional databases, (the NLSY97, n = 2962, the WLS, n = 7646, the PIAAC, n = 3605 and the ADD health, n = 3553; all databases are American except of the PIAAC which is German). We found that for educational attainment the average R2 of intelligence was .232 whereas for personality it was .053. For GPA it was .229 and .024, respectively and for pay it was .080 and .040, respectively.
AB - We conduct a replication of Borghans, Golsteyn, Heckman and Humphries (PNAS, 2016) who suggested that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes. We focus on the prediction of educational (educational attainment, GPA) and occupational (pay) success, and analyze two of the databases that BGHH used (the NLSY79, n = 5594 and the MIDUS, n = 2240) as well as four additional databases, (the NLSY97, n = 2962, the WLS, n = 7646, the PIAAC, n = 3605 and the ADD health, n = 3553; all databases are American except of the PIAAC which is German). We found that for educational attainment the average R2 of intelligence was .232 whereas for personality it was .053. For GPA it was .229 and .024, respectively and for pay it was .080 and .040, respectively.
KW - Educational attainment
KW - Income
KW - Intelligence
KW - Life outcomes
KW - Personality
KW - The big-five
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U2 - 10.1016/j.intell.2022.101631
DO - 10.1016/j.intell.2022.101631
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AN - SCOPUS:85126540166
SN - 0160-2896
VL - 92
JO - Intelligence
JF - Intelligence
M1 - 101631
ER -