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Johnson & Wilson's The 13 High-Paying Jobs You Don’t Want to Have

This is a lot of I/O and personality a little bit of stats. But it does demonstrate correlation and percentiles, and it is interactive. For this article  from Time, Johnson and Wilson used participant scores on a very popular vocational selection tool, the Holland Inventory (sometimes called the RAISEC), and participant salary information to see if there is a strong relationship between salary and personality-job fit. There is not. How to use in class: -Show your students what a weak correlation looks like when expressed via scatter plot. Seriously. I spend a lot of time looking for examples for teaching statistics. And there are all sorts of significant positive and negative correlation examples out there . But good examples of non-relationships are a lot rarer. -If you teach I/O, this fits nicely into personality-job fit lecture. If you don't teach I/O but are a psychologist, this still applies to your field and may introduce your students to the field of I/O. ...