If you're smart enough and congenial enough, robos may not take your job.
Here's the science.
Science Daily: Personality factors are best defense against losing your job to a robot
Worried robots will take your job? Researchers say people who are more intelligent and who showed an interest in the arts and sciences during high school are less likely to fall victim to automation.
Later educational attainment mattered, but researchers said the findings highlight the importance of personality traits, intelligence and vocational interests in determining how well people fare in a changing labor market. The work was published this week in the European Journal of Personality.
- SD
That seems a clear suggestion toward the Path of Enlightenment and a Job in the Age of Robos.
"Robots can't perform as well as humans when it comes to complex social interactions," said Rodica Damian, assistant professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Houston and lead author of the study. "Humans also outperform machines when it comes to tasks that require creativity and a high degree of complexity that is not routine. As soon as you require flexibility, the human does better."
Researchers used a dataset of 346,660 people from the American Institutes of Research, which tracked a representative sample of Americans over 50 years, looking at personality traits and vocational interests in adolescence, along with intelligence and socioeconomic status. It is the first study to look at how a variety of personality and background factors predict whether a person will select jobs that are more (or less) likely to be automated in the future.
- SD
Ed: why do they still call psychology a science when this has nothing to do with robos but rather with general career success in life with or without robos
Let's continue to see if anything substantive actually falls out of this.
Machine learning and big data will allow the number of tasks that machines can perform better than humans to increase so rapidly that merely increasing educational levels won't be enough to keep up with job automation, she said. "The edge is in unique human skills."
Still, that can correlate with more education, and the researchers say an across-the-board increase in U.S. education levels could mean millions fewer jobs at risk. Targeting at-risk groups would yield significant benefits, she said.
And while skeptics question whether the labor market will be able to absorb millions of higher skilled workers, Damian looks at it differently.
"By preparing more people, at least more people will have a fighting chance," she said.
- SD
Ed: well, they did get one thing right, that last sentence.
Yah, in English that means get an education and a real one rather than in those crap ass correspondence schools or any of that online bumfuckery. If you're not willing to put anything into the education, wtf do you expect to get out of it.
Ed: otherwise a robo will take your job?
If the robo can do it more cost-effectively than you, it won't amount to a hill of beans if you can tap dance since that job goin' poof doublequick.
How neurotic are you feeling about now?
(crickets)
Here's the science.
Science Daily: Personality factors are best defense against losing your job to a robot
Worried robots will take your job? Researchers say people who are more intelligent and who showed an interest in the arts and sciences during high school are less likely to fall victim to automation.
Later educational attainment mattered, but researchers said the findings highlight the importance of personality traits, intelligence and vocational interests in determining how well people fare in a changing labor market. The work was published this week in the European Journal of Personality.
- SD
That seems a clear suggestion toward the Path of Enlightenment and a Job in the Age of Robos.
"Robots can't perform as well as humans when it comes to complex social interactions," said Rodica Damian, assistant professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Houston and lead author of the study. "Humans also outperform machines when it comes to tasks that require creativity and a high degree of complexity that is not routine. As soon as you require flexibility, the human does better."
Researchers used a dataset of 346,660 people from the American Institutes of Research, which tracked a representative sample of Americans over 50 years, looking at personality traits and vocational interests in adolescence, along with intelligence and socioeconomic status. It is the first study to look at how a variety of personality and background factors predict whether a person will select jobs that are more (or less) likely to be automated in the future.
- SD
Ed: why do they still call psychology a science when this has nothing to do with robos but rather with general career success in life with or without robos
Let's continue to see if anything substantive actually falls out of this.
Machine learning and big data will allow the number of tasks that machines can perform better than humans to increase so rapidly that merely increasing educational levels won't be enough to keep up with job automation, she said. "The edge is in unique human skills."
Still, that can correlate with more education, and the researchers say an across-the-board increase in U.S. education levels could mean millions fewer jobs at risk. Targeting at-risk groups would yield significant benefits, she said.
And while skeptics question whether the labor market will be able to absorb millions of higher skilled workers, Damian looks at it differently.
"By preparing more people, at least more people will have a fighting chance," she said.
- SD
Ed: well, they did get one thing right, that last sentence.
Yah, in English that means get an education and a real one rather than in those crap ass correspondence schools or any of that online bumfuckery. If you're not willing to put anything into the education, wtf do you expect to get out of it.
Ed: otherwise a robo will take your job?
If the robo can do it more cost-effectively than you, it won't amount to a hill of beans if you can tap dance since that job goin' poof doublequick.
How neurotic are you feeling about now?
(crickets)
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