I take Kaj’s comment two steps upthread from here not to be making any particular claim about the correctness or coherence or importance of Kegan’s theory, but only to be saying: if Kegan’s account of things were correct, then we would not necessarily see strong correlations with age.
I endorse this interpretation.
That looks to me like it would give a really strong correlation with age. Kaj, do you think I’m missing something here, and if so what?
No, you’re right. My intuitive sense of how the distribution would line up was off, I get correlation coefficients around 0.5 on few synthetic datasets that I had Claude generate now (eyeballing the scatterplot, I think the code generating the datasets has some bugs, but I think fixing those is more likely to increase the correlation than to decrease it).
I endorse this interpretation.
No, you’re right. My intuitive sense of how the distribution would line up was off, I get correlation coefficients around 0.5 on few synthetic datasets that I had Claude generate now (eyeballing the scatterplot, I think the code generating the datasets has some bugs, but I think fixing those is more likely to increase the correlation than to decrease it).