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Which U.S. states are most populated by neurotics?
The map is here. It is more or less what I expected, namely the Northeast. Virginia does fine, though we seem to be a state of open, disagreeable introverts. The link shows you other state-by-state personality maps as well. The pointer is from Arnold Kling, though I would have read it anyway.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 14, 2008 at 09:15 PM in Data Source | Permalink
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"open, disagreeable introverts." A lot of people would describe Masonomists that way.
Posted by: Arnold Kling at Sep 14, 2008 9:43:54 PM
Looks much more like "Appalachia" than "the Northeast." In fact, it bears a resemblance to the Clinton/Obama delegate map.
Posted by: Sean Carroll at Sep 14, 2008 10:10:51 PM
who are the disagreeable ones? not the two who blog here, no? ;-)
Posted by: razib at Sep 14, 2008 10:24:07 PM
Georgia seems to have done really well for itself.
Posted by: Doug at Sep 14, 2008 10:55:40 PM
The comments about correlation between openness and creativity are interesting. Again we see that openness is good in society, almost in any meaning of the word. Open society, open source, open people. You could probably base a whole ideology on that word. "Openism". :-)
Posted by: Lennart Regebro at Sep 15, 2008 3:49:59 AM
Be skeptical about this one. The definition of extraversion: "energy, positive emotions, surgency, and the tendency to seek stimulation and the company of others." The study, however, finds that extraversion is negatively correlated with spending time with friends. Innnnteresting. They also find that a large number of correlations which hold at the individual level reverse at the state level, which certainly isn't implausible but should be a signal for caution. This study was conducted over the internet, with people who just happened to stumble on their quiz, and I suspect there is something very funny going on either with the version of the FF test they use, the "random people on the internet" approach to data collection, the way they aggregate the data by state, or all of the above.
All the same, I wonder what the data would look like broken down by zip code.
Posted by: andthenyoufall at Sep 15, 2008 5:09:15 AM
No wonder I like Virginia so much.
Posted by: Some Random Economist at Sep 15, 2008 9:14:37 AM
Thank goodness most of the ag states are "conscientious"
Posted by: at Sep 15, 2008 9:15:01 AM
Did they not even poll Alaska? It's in the 5th quintile in every category.
Oh yeah, that's right. Alaskans don't have personality.
Posted by: at Sep 15, 2008 9:54:08 AM
What makes California so agreeable?
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What makes California so agreeable?
weather?
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