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Comment by kavec on [POLL] LessWrong group on YourMorals.org (2015) · 2015-03-04T00:21:54.193Z · LW · GW

I scored high on both (4.5 openness and 4.2 conscientiousness), so, err... good question!

(AKA I really, really wish I had an answer for this.)

In the few minutes I had before posting this, I managed to scare up this 2003 meta-analysis that tried to correlate the big-five with Holland's RIASEC occupational types. Before reading I was expecting to see (85%) a correlation between conscientiousness and artistic/openness and artistic, with the prior that I attending an art school and successful art seems to hang on both qualities.

http://www.ibrarian.net/navon/paper/PERSONNEL_PSYCHOLOGY_2003_56.pdf?paperid=20534921

Spoilers: I was wrong. The analysis concludes that openness correlates with Artistic and Investigative types (Table 5) and, of those, conscientiousness correlates very weakly to Investigative (Table 3).

Heading to Wikipedia, you can find sample careers for RIASEC codes below, but I'm not getting a sense that many of these careers really combo well with conscientiousness and openness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Codes

Noted exceptions: Technical writer, "Counselor", Psychology/Psychologist