I posted an hypothesis about the foundation of construal-level: "Abstract Construal is Offline Thinking" ( http://tinyurl.com/k2yqgy8 ) Among other foundational matters, I discuss Robin's homo hypocritus theory.
I have an intuition I'm questioning that claims there are increasing returns to personal qualities we judge others on. For instance, moving from IQ 112 -> 114 affects your life more than 92 -> 94. Similarly an additional inch will affect the perceived height of a 6 foot person more than a 5 for person.
This doesn't sit with the economic idea that there are diminishing returns everywhere.
Maybe this is because we don't even notice qualities about a person unless they're very different from average. Something like "her intelligence is worth paying attention to. Oh, she's very smart." Or maybe having a lot of a quality makes you more likely to seek situations where there's a return on that quality. Or maybe it has to do with the inherently competitive effect of signaling.
Or maybe this is an illusion.
People act like this is true. The already fit spend far more time in the gym. The naturally smart spend far more time reading.
What kind of person has dual n-back on their phone? The kind of person who needs it least.
I posted an hypothesis about the foundation of construal-level: "Abstract Construal is Offline Thinking" ( http://tinyurl.com/k2yqgy8 ) Among other foundational matters, I discuss Robin's homo hypocritus theory.
I have an intuition I'm questioning that claims there are increasing returns to personal qualities we judge others on. For instance, moving from IQ 112 -> 114 affects your life more than 92 -> 94. Similarly an additional inch will affect the perceived height of a 6 foot person more than a 5 for person.
This doesn't sit with the economic idea that there are diminishing returns everywhere.
Maybe this is because we don't even notice qualities about a person unless they're very different from average. Something like "her intelligence is worth paying attention to. Oh, she's very smart." Or maybe having a lot of a quality makes you more likely to seek situations where there's a return on that quality. Or maybe it has to do with the inherently competitive effect of signaling.
Or maybe this is an illusion.
People act like this is true. The already fit spend far more time in the gym. The naturally smart spend far more time reading.
What kind of person has dual n-back on their phone? The kind of person who needs it least.
I'd be curious to see thoughts here.