But being in a position of power filters for competence, and competence filters for accurate beliefs.
If the quoted bit had instead said:
This means that highly competent people in positions of power often have less accurate beliefs than highly competent people who are not in positions of power.
I wouldn’t necessarily have disagreed. But as is I’m pretty skeptical of the claim (again depending on what is meant by “often”).
Made a related change to the OP (changed it from “much less competent” to just “competent”).
I think the original phrasing is still fine, because it depends on the cutoff you are looking at. I think if you condition on the kind of people I tend to spend most of my time with, then the original phrasing holds, but it doesn’t really hold if you just look at the general population.
But being in a position of power filters for competence, and competence filters for accurate beliefs.
If the quoted bit had instead said:
I wouldn’t necessarily have disagreed. But as is I’m pretty skeptical of the claim (again depending on what is meant by “often”).
Made a related change to the OP (changed it from “much less competent” to just “competent”).
I think the original phrasing is still fine, because it depends on the cutoff you are looking at. I think if you condition on the kind of people I tend to spend most of my time with, then the original phrasing holds, but it doesn’t really hold if you just look at the general population.